Historic Newspapers: Constitutional Amendments & The Supreme Court

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, Akron, Ohio, May 16, 1972 (front page only)

* Governor George Wallace Shot
* Amish children only need to go to school through 8th grade
* Wisconsin vs. Yoder Supreme Court… more

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, February 21, 1967 

* Richard Speck Chicago, Illinois murders 
* Student nurses 
* Opening of trial 

This 44 page newspaper has a three column headline… more

THE RUSSELL DAILY NEWS, Kansas, July 18, 1966 

* Richard Speck Chicago, Illinois murders 
* Student nurses 

This 6 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "Defer… more

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Massachusetts, June 14, 1966 

* Miranda rights onset
* Supreme Court decides the Miranda vs. Arizona case
* Landmark decision

The top of the front page reports on a… more

THE PRATT DAILY TRIBUNE, Kansas,  November 8, 1962 

* Anna Eleanor Roosevelt death (1st report) 
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt wife 

This 10 page newspaper has a small one column photo of… more

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, April 11, 1961

* Adolph Eichmann trial begins
* Jewish mass murderer
* World War II Nazi

This 10 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the… more

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 17, 1954

* Heinz Wilhelm Guderian death (1st report)
* "Father of the Blitzkrieg"... Nazi Panzer Armies
* Brown vs. Board of Education - "day of" reporting

This 42… more

CENTRE DAILY TIMES, State College, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1951 

* Twenty-second 22nd Amendment to the United States 

The front page has a one column heading: "New 22nd Amendment Cuts… more

THE 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… more

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL,  June 4, 1946, Topeka Kansas.  This issue contains the following 6 column front page headline: "NAVY ASKS INACTIVES VOLUNTEER".  This issue also contains the following… more

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, August 18, 1937

* Hugo Black - American politician and jurist
* Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
* Klu Klux Klan - KKK

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 5, 1935

* Baldwin v. G.A.F. Seelig, Inc. ruling
* United States Supreme Court decision

The top of the front page has a two column headline: "U.S. COURT RULES ALBANY… more

THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1933. 

* Impending end of prohibition 
* 18th Amendment 
* Alcohol - beer -liquor 

The front page has a two column headline: "HOUSE… more

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, Albany, New York, January 23, 1933 


* 20th Amendment ratified - Lame Duck
* Presidential inaugurations now on the 20th of January

The front page has a three column… more

NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM, December 5, 1932

* Repeal of U.S. prohibition fails
* 18th Amendment continues
* John Nance Garner

The front page has a one column heading: "REPEAL LOST IN CONGRESS… more

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, January 12, 1932

* Oliver Wendell Holmes resigns
* Supreme Court of the United States

This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on… more

THE OMAHA NEWS, May 26, 1930 One column front page headline that reads "Asserts Day Law Crushes State Power", with a lengthy report to follow.  This issue also includes front page coverage of the… more

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 6, 1930

* Prohibition - 18th Eighteenth Amendment
* Wets vs. Drys in Washington D.C.

The top of the front page has a two column headline: "DRYS PORTRAY PROHIBITION… more

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, October 20, 1928

* William Edward Hickman hanged
* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder

This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page… more

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 19, 1928 This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the back page: "Hickman Must Die Today" "San Quentin Warden Rejects a Sanity Board for Slayer".

Tells of… more

MEMPHIS EVENING APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, October 19, 1928

* William Edward Hickman hanged
* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder

This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on the… more

THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Nebraska, October 18, 1928 

* William Edward Hickman 'dead man walking' 
* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder 

This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the… more

MEMPHIS EVENING APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, October 18, 1928 

* William Edward Hickman 'dead man walking' 
* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder 

This 20 page newspaper has one column… more

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 10, 1928

* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder
* William Edward Hickman GUILTY

This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include:… more

THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, December 30, 1927 

* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder 
* re. William Edward Hickman arrest 

This 18 page newspaper has a three column headline on the… more

THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, December 24, 1927 

* Marion Parker kidnapping and murder 
* William Edward Hickman ARREST 

This 20 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page… more

THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, January 16, 1920  This 18 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "J. BARLEYCORN IS MOURNED AT 36-HOUR WAKE"… more

THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, June 6, 1919

* Women's suffrage passed in Senate
* Women to vote in 1920 elections

The front page has one column headlines that… more

SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, June 6, 1916

* Louis D. Brandeis inauguration
* 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice

This 16 page newspaper has one column headings near the… more

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 25, 1916

* Louis D. Brandeis
* 1st Jewish Supreme Court Justice

This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 5 "FAVORS BRANDEIS NOMINATION,10 TO 8",… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 21, 1912

This issue has a color cover sheet over it and the front page of this issue has a photo called "Whitelaw Reid."

In this issue there is a photo… more

THE CALL, San Francisco, California, December 17, 1912  The front page of this issue features a banner headline "Huge Anthracite Coal Combine Is Destroyed By Federal Supreme Court" with subheads… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 20, 1912 (color cover not present)  The front page of this issue has a photo called "The Opening of the Olympic Games." Within the issue there is an illustration… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 11, 1912 (does not include Part II - see note below)  Included are the following illustrations and photos: "The Representative American Citizen?" and "IN 1912", both… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 2, 1912

The front page of this issue is a photo of "The Street of the Automobiles."

This issue has an illustration of "The Ever-Persistent Billy" by E. W.… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 25, 1911

This issue has a full, color cover before the front page. The front page of this issue is an illustration of "Balfour's Successor."

This issue is… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 28, 1911

This issue has a full, color cover before the front page. The front page of this issue is a photo of "The Late Justice Harlan."

This issue is has a… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York,  August 26, 1911

This issue has a full, color cover before the front page. The front page of this issue is a photo of "England's Famine-Threatening Strike."

This… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 8, 1911

This issue has a full, color cover before the front page. The front page of this issue is a photo of "The Coronation Procession Passing Trafalgar Square… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York City, June 3, 1911

There is a full color cover page on this issue. The front page of this issue is a photo of "New York's Most Famous Citizen."

This issue has an… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 27, 1911

There is a full color cover page on this issue. The front page of this issue is a photo of "The New Secretary of War."

This issue has an illustration of… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 13, 1911

There is a full color cover page on this issue. The front page of this issue is a photo of "Bangor's $10,000,000 Fire."

This issue has a double page… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York City,  April 8, 1911

There is a full color cover page on this issue. The front page of this issue is an illustration of "Revenge is Sweet" by Kemble.

This issue has a… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 25, 1911

The front page of this issue is a photo of "The Late Archbishop Ryan."

This issue has an illustration of " 'Who Said Stand Pat?' " by Kemble. There… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 4, 1911

The front page of this issue is a photo of "Champ Clark."

This issue has photos of "The Democrats On the Ways and Means Committee" and there is an… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 24, 1910

There is a full color cover page on this issue. The front page of this issue is a photo of "The New Chief Justice of the United States."

This issue… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 17, 1910

This issue a full color, cover page. This issue's front page is a photo of "Connecticut Democrats' Choice for Governor."

This issue has an… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 16, 1910

The front page of this issue has a photo of "The Late Chief Justice Fuller."

This issue has an illustration of "Lionization--Speculation… more

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York City, May 21, 1910

The front page of this issue has an illustration of "The Visitor in the Morning Sky" which is "an impression of Halley's Comet" by Elizabeth Shippen… more