Historic Newspapers: The 20th Century
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Item #591293THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Springfield, Massachusetts, December 2, 1947
* Johnny Lujack wins Heisman Trophy
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish - NCAA college football
This 30 page newspaper has two column headlines on page 23: "Lujack Is Top College Grid Player in Nation", "Notre Dame Quarterback Voted Winner of Annual Heisman... Read full description -
Item #591263WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 29, 1906
* Cuban pacification
* William H. Taft
This 8 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE CUBANS" with lengthy subhead. 1st report coverage on William H. Taft becoming the provisional governor of Cuba during... Read full description -
Item #591261WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 21, 1906
* Jellico Tennessee/Kentucky
* Dynamite explosion
This 8 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Town Wrecked By Dynamite". 1st report coverage on the explosion disaster at Jellico, Kentucky/Tennessee from a railroad car loaded with 11 tons of... Read full description -
Item #591253THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia, January 3, 1913
* Dyersburg, Tennessee
* Meningitis epidemic
This 14 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page: "Town Ravaged By Meningitis", "Sixty-One Cases in Tennessee Village and thirty-Five Deaths". See photos for text here.
Other news and advertisements of the day.... Read full description -
Item #591213THE WORLD, New York City, June 27, 1930
* Southern Cross airplane flight
* Fokker F.VII trimotor monoplane
* Charles Kingsford Smith
This 28 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "SOUTHERN CROSS SOARS OVER CITY, LANDS SAFELY AT MINEOLA FIELD" with subheads and photo of the famed airplane. 1st report coverage... Read full description -
Item #591139THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, April 21, 1945
* Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp
* Horrors being revealed
* World War II - Germany
This 10 page newspaper has one column headings on page 2: "Mass burial Of Fearsome Camp Victims" and "Naked Corpses Hauled in Trucks And Dumped in Pit"
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Item #591131THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 30, 1933
* Early Jewish concentration camp report
* Rise of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich
The front page, near the bottom, has a significant report headed: "Nazis Imprison Jews in Concentration Camp After French Paper Charges Abuses There" noting in part: "...The reason given is that the... Read full description -
Item #591080ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, February 3, 1905
* Hornellsville, New York
* Arkport sleighing disaster
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "HORNELLSVILLE WOMEN IN AN AWFUL ACCIDENT" and more with list of the dead and injured (see photos). 1st report coverage on the sleigh... Read full description -
Item #591048ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, June 23, 1905
* 20th Century Limited wreck
* Mentor, Ohio
This 8 page newspaper has three column headlines on the front page that include: "THE 20th CENTURY FLYER WRECKED" and more (see photos). 1st report coverage on the wreck of the 20th Century Limited express passenger train... Read full description -
Item #591022WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, October 25, 1901
* Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls (Horseshoe)
* 1st ever person to do so in a barrel and survive
The front page has one column headlines: "WENT OVER THE FALLS", "Mrs. Taylor Made the Trip In a Barrel and Lived", "Ordeal Lasted Half... Read full description -
Item #590958THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, September 16, 1928
* Bobby Jones wins U.S. Amateur Open
* PGA golf
This 40+ page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page of the sport's section (inside): "JONES RETAINS TITLE" with subheads that include: "Jones Trounces Perkins, British Amateur... Read full description -
Item #590898THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 20, 1944
* Jewish Holocaust becoming reality to the public
* Nazi-occupied Europe exterminations
* Help on the way?
This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 5: "SPEED SEEN NEEDED FOR JEWS' RESCUE" and "1,500,000 in Hungary and Rumania Can Be Saved, Says Official in... Read full description -
Item #590876WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, Wilmington, North Carolina, August 9, 1929
* Graf Zeppelin (airship)
This 8 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "DIRIGIBLE MAKING GOOD TIMES ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN" with subheads (see photos).
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise... Read full description -
Item #590875SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, May 8, 1916
* Glenn Springs raid
* Boquillas, Texas
* Mexicans
This 14 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "BANDIT RAID INTO TEXAS", "Four Americans Are Killed", "Eight Troopers Fight 75 Mexicans" with subheads. 1st report coverage... Read full description -
Item #590873SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 28, 1959
* Poplarville, Mississippi
* Negro lynching - murder
This 32 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "FBI QUIZZES STUDENTS IN LYNCH PROBE" and
"Over 60 Agents Investigating Mississippi Mob Action". This is coverage on the lynching of negro Mack... Read full description -
Item #590867WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, October 22, 1901
* Waco Texas street duel
* Gunfight - revolver
This 4 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page that include: "STREET DUEL IN TEXAS", "Bad Feeling Between Families Ends In Two Deaths", "Father And Son the Victims" and more. See photos for 1st report coverage... Read full description -
Item #590865WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, October 19, 1901
* Sarah Bernhardt front page photo
* "the most famous actress the world has ever known"
This 8 page newspaper has a two column photo of Sarah Bernhardt, famous French actress with caption: "Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's Latest Picture"
News and advertisements of... Read full description -
Item #590857THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, September 15, 1928
* Bobby Jones wins U.S. Amateur Open (day of)
* PGA golf
This 24 page newspaper has two column headlines on page 18: "Amateur Golfing Champions of U.S. and Great Britain Battle for National Title" and more with photo of Jones (see photos). Famous golfer... Read full description -
Item #590851ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, June 2, 1903
* Flood of 1903
* Midwest region
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "CITY SUBMERGED", "Kansas City, Topeka and Des Moines Inundated" and "Fire Adds To The Horrors". Lengthy text on the flood of 1903 in the Midwest.
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Item #590846THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Nebraska, March 8, 1935
* Baby Doe Tabor death
* Elizabeth Tabor
* Matchless mine, Leadville, Colorado
This 32 page newspaper has one column headings on page 3: "BABY DOE TABOR FOUND FROZEN IN MINE SHACK" and "Poverty Ends Last Chapter in Life of Belle of Camps In Old Gold Rush Days". See photos... Read full description -
Item #590843THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, February 10, 1902
* The great Paterson fire of 1902
* Trolley fire spreads due to the wind
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "FIRE LOSS $10,000,000", "Paterson, N. J., Devastated--Best Buildings in the City Destroyed", "Hundreds Of Citizens... Read full description -
Item #590838THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, December 23, 1942
* Aliquippa, Pennsylvania avalanche disaster
* World War II defense workers killed
This 28 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "AVALANCHE KILLS 21 ON BUS" with subheads (see photos). 1st report coverage on the avalanche that buried a bus... Read full description -
Item #590819WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, February 8, 1904
* The great Baltimore, Maryland fire of 1904
This 6 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "FORTY MILLIONS" with subheads: "Said to Be Loss by a Sunday Fire In Baltimore", "Twenty Blocks Burned" and more (see photos). Coverage on... Read full description -
Item #590812ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, April 21, 1903
* Outlaw James McKinney killed
* Bakersfield, California
This 8 page newspaper has one column headline on the front page that include: "BOLD OUTLAW KILLED", "End of a Man Guilty of Many Murders", "Two Accomplices Surrender". See photos for 1st report overage... Read full description -
Item #590809ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, November 27, 1903
* Bonanza, Arkansas
* Mine disaster
This 8 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page: "DEATHS IN COAL MINE" and "Thirteen Miners Killed by Explosion at Bonanze (sic), Ark."
See photos for 1st report coverage on the coal mine explosion at... Read full description -
Item #590808ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, October 13, 1903
* The Passaic flood
* Paterson, New Jersey
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "PATERSON FLOODED" and "Greater Flood Than That of Last Year". 1st report coverage on the Passaic flood which devastated Paterson, New Jersey.
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Item #590806ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, July 21, 1903
* Pope Leo XIII death (1st report)
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "POPE DEAD", "Aged Prelate Passed Away This Afternoon", "The Late Pope Leo XIII" and more with two small related illustrations. The entire front page is... Read full description -
Item #590786ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, July 31, 1903
* Tewksbury, Massachusetts explosion disaster
The front page has one column headlines: "AWFUL CATASTROPHE", "Two Powder Magazines Blew Up In Lowell, Mass.", "Over A Score Of Lives Lost" and more. 1st report coverage of the Tewksbury,... Read full description -
Item #590785ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, July 24, 1903
* Paterson, New Jersey
* Tornado disaster
The front page has one column headlines: "TORNADO AT PATERSON", "Many Buildings Blown Down" and more. See photos for 1st report coverage on the Paterson, New Jersey tornado disaster.
Other news and various advertisements... Read full description -
Item #590783ALLEGHENY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, June 9, 1903
* Pacolet & Clifton SC South Carolina
* Cloudburst flooding disaster
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "DROWNED IN TORRENT", "Mountain Flood Sweeps Away Mills Towns", "Pacolet (sic) River's Sudden Rise" and more. 1st... Read full description -
Item #590778THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, October 8, 1949
* 1947 World Series of baseball (game 3)
* New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers
* 1st of 5 Championships in a row for Yanks
This 30 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "YANKS TOP DODGERS WITH 3-RUN 9TH, 4-3, FOR 2-1 SERIES LEAD", "Mize's Pinch... Read full description -
Item #590764THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, September 30, 1957
* New York Giants (San Francisco)
* Final game played (1st report)
This 48 page newspaper has a small one column heading in the sport's section (page 39): "Fans Go Berserk At the Thought Of Losing Giants"
See photo for 1st report brief coverage on the very last baseball... Read full description -
Item #590749THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 13, 1941
* The Yellow Star "Star of David" badge
* Jewish Holocaust heightens
* Jude - Jews - Judaica
The top of page 3 has a notable Judaica report, headed: "200 Jewish Suicides Reported In Berlin", "Toll Laid to Star of David Law--Slovakia Adds New Ban".... Read full description -
Item #590745THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, May 17, 1930
* Honey Grove, Texas
* Negro lynching
This 16 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Second Negro In Texas Is Burned By Mob in Week". 1st report coverage on the lynching of Negro George (Sam?) Johnson in Honey Grove, Texas.
Other news, sports... Read full description -
Item #590677THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 6, 1944
* Jewish Holocaust being known for the 1st time
* Nazi-occupied Estonia exterminations
* Gruesome details
This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 6: "NAZI DEATH CAMP A SCENE OF HORROR", "Story of Massacre of 3,000 in Estonia Evident in Piles of Burned Bodies",... Read full description -
Item #590645THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 17, 1923
* George Jay Gould I death (1st report)
* King Tutankhamen's curse ?
This 38 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "GEORGE J. GOULD DIES IN VILLA IN FRANCE; LEAVES $30,000,000", "Death Holds Up Ligtigation With Family Over His... Read full description -
Item #590643THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, November 28, 1939
* Nile Kinnick "All Conference" 1st choice
* Iowa Hawkeyes - NCAA college football
* James A. Naismith death (1st report)
This 18 page newspaper has a two column headline on page 14: "Nile Kinnick Is Unanimous Choice on All-Big Ten Team" (See images... Read full description -
Item #590565TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Taunton, Massachusetts, November 28, 1939
* James Naismith death (1st report)
* "Father of Basketball" - inventor
This 16 page newspaper has one column headings on page 12: "Naismith Has Fatal Attack", "Invented Game Of Basketball In 1891" with photo of Naismith. This is a first report... Read full description -
Item #590551THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, March 29, 1931
* Byron Bancroft 'Ban' Johnson death
* The Towner bus tragedy (1st report)
* Lost in Colorado snow blizzard
This 100+ page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "5 CHILDREN PERISH IN BUS IN COLORADO SNOWDRIFT; 7 OTHERS DIE IN MID-WEST" with... Read full description -
Item #590504ALTOONA TRIBUNE, Altoona, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1928
* Ocean Liner S.S. Vestris sinks
This 16 page newspaper has a seven column headline on the front page: "350 MISSING AS LINER SINKS OFF VA. COAST" with subheads "Searchlights Comb Sea For Lost Raft; Little Hope Remains", "Ships Carrying Survivors Head for Port; First... Read full description -
Item #590469THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 13, 1948
* Ada Lois Sipuel - Supreme Court ruling (1st report)
* Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
* Law school for African Americans
This 52 page newspaper has a two column headline near the bottom of the front page: "Supreme Court Orders Oklahoma to Admit a Negro to Law School".... Read full description -
Item #590457THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 19, 1945
* Maurice 'Rocket' Richard
* National Hockey League
* Montreal Canadians
* Becomes 1st to score 50 goals in season (1st report)
This 32 page newspaper has a very small one column heading in the sport's section on page 15: "Richard gets 50th Goal". 1st report on... Read full description -
Item #590455THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, July 12, 1940
* Battle of Britain begins
* World War II original
* Nazis bomb London and more
This 34 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "MASSED GERMAN PLANES RAID BRITAIN" with subheads that include: "COASTS ATTACKED" "One City Badly Bombed but Nazi Loss Is Put at... Read full description -
Item #590419THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, August 6, 1944
* Stockton, Georgia
* Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
* Trains collision
This 60+ page newspaper has a somewhat discrete one column headline on page 32: "45 NEGROES KILLED IN SOUTHERN WRECK". 1st report coverage on the Stockton, Georgia train collision that killed many... Read full description -
Item #590402THE OMAHA MORNING BEE, Omaha, Nebraska, February 18, 1925
* Floyd Collins death - funeral rites
* Sand Cave - Mammoth - Kentucky
This 16 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "Earth Sinks to Close Up Cave Tomb", "Hundreds Gather to Hear Services on Man Buried 70 Feet Below Hilltop Altar" and... Read full description -
Item #590389THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, April 4, 1925
* Gerald Chapman convicted - death sentence
* Count of Gramercy Park - gentleman bandit
* Prohibition era outlaw
This 16 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "CHAPMAN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO DIE ON GALLOWS JUNE 25TH NEXT; COUNSEL FOR BANDIT TO FILE... Read full description -
Item #590358THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 27, 1931
* Gangster era hitman Fred "Killer" Burke captured
* St. Valentine's Day massacre suspect
This 52 page newspaper has one column headlines on the back page (pg. 52): "BURKE, ACE OF CRIME, IS CAPTURED ASLEEP", "Killer, Charged With Chicago's St. Valentine... Read full description -
Item #590330THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, August 29, 1922
* Michael Collins assassination
* Irish Republican Army leader
* Irish Free State
This 12 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Nation's Tears Flow At Burial of Collins" with subhead: "Throngs Fill Dublin Cathedral and Streets During... Read full description -
Item #590300THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, September 26, 1943 The front page has a six-column, three-line headline which reads "Russians Fight Way Into Kiev Suburbs After Taking Stronghold of Smolensk; Allies Push Ahead in Hills Above Naples" with subhead "Fifth Army Gaining", "Troops Forge Ahead in Heavy Artillery Fire From Both Sides";... Read full description -
Item #590259THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 1, 1943
* Jewish Holocaust being known for the 1st time
* Nazi-occupied Europe exterminations
This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 5: "ACTION DEMANDED TO SAVE JEWS NOW", "Leon Henderson Terms Allies Guilty of Moral Cowardice on Stand on Massacres". See photos for... Read full description
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