Historic Newspapers: Transportation - Railroad-Flight-Automobile
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Item #576382THE OMAHA MORNING BEE, Omaha, Nebraska, June 17, 1925
* Hackettstown NJ New Jersey train wreck
* 1st report
This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "Boat Train Death Toll Goes to 35" and more (see images). This tells of train wreck disaster at Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Other news, sports and... Read full description -
Item #576364THE DETROIT NEWS, Detroit, Michigan, September 28, 1923
* Glen Rock WY train wreck (1st report)
* Coal Creek - Casper Wyoming
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "TRAIN IN RIVER; FEAR 40 DEAD", "Passengers Are Drowned as Engine, Five Cars Plunge Through Bridge", and "Snow Hinders... Read full description -
Item #576062THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Nebraska, April 12, 1935
* Williamsport, Maryland High School
* Rockville, Maryland disaster (1st report)
This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "14 CHILDREN DIE AS TRAIN SPLITS BUS" "Bodies of Children Hurled Into Cemetery or Strewn Along Tracks 200... Read full description -
Item #575420THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, June 30, 1931
* Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
* 1st flight around the World in airplane
* During flight reporting
This 22 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "World Fliers Reach Alaska After Perilous 2,300 Mile Flight Over Bering Sea" with... Read full description -
Item #575305THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, April 18, 1936
* Charles "Lucky' Luciano arrested
* New York City gangster
This 16 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 3: "LUCIANO ON WAY EAST UNDER GUARD", "Detectives to Board Train at Albany; $350,000 Bail Proposed"
This tells of the arrest of Charles "Lucky"... Read full description -
Item #575210SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, EXTRA !, April 4, 1933
* Crash of the USS Akron (ZRS-4)
* 1st report... Great headline for display
This 10 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "DIRIGIBLE AKRON WRECKED AT SEA" with subheads and photo. (see)
This issue is damaged with major spine and central fold wear... Read full description -
Item #575174THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, Massachusetts, January 19, 1942
* Hollywood Actress Carole Lombard dies in plane crash
This 14 page newspaper has a one column headline on page 7: "Carole Lombard's War Work Praised By Treasury Head"
Other news of the day throughout. Good condition.
wikipedia notes: When the US... Read full description -
Item #575169THE KINGSPORT TIMES, Kingsport, Tennessee, September 24, 1934 This 8 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "GRAND JURY CONSIDERS EXTORTION CASE AGAINST BRUNO HAUPTMANN" with subheads and related photo. (see)
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning, minor margin wear, otherwise in good... Read full description -
Item #575100THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, April 11, 1931
* Heartley 'Hunk' Anderson named new head coach
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish college football team
* Post Knute Rockne airplane crash death
This 18 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on page 11: "ANDERSON NAMED TO TAKE CHARGE OF NOTRE DAME ELEVEN" with subheads... Read full description -
Item #574882LEOMINSTER ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, November 16, 1964
* Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 disaster
* Fairchild F-27 airplane crash
* Sloan, Nevada
This 10 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Wrecked Airliner Found"
Tells of the Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 airplane disaster near Las Vegas,... Read full description -
Item #574865THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, December 6, 1930
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. USC Southern California Trojans
* Last official collegiate game coached by Knute Rockne before death (DAY OF)
* ND to repeat as National Champions after this game
This 24 page newspaper has pre-game reporting on the Notre Dame vs. USC football game which was... Read full description -
Item #574863ALBANY EVENING NEWS, Albany, New York, January 23, 1929 This 24 page newspaper has a three column photo on the front page with captioned headline: "Snow Storms Blamed In Series of Fatal Rail Accidents In Various Parts of U.S." with subhead. (see)
This tells of the Interurban train (trolley) and bus collision disaster at Bellevue,... Read full description -
Item #574841FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Massachusetts, May 23, 1962
* Unionville, Missouri
* Continental Airlines Flight 11
* Jet airplane explosion disaster
This 36 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page:
"45 Persons Meet Death In $5-Million-Jet Crash"
Tells of the airplane suicide bomb explosion of... Read full description -
Item #574836THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, July 29, 1962
* Steelton, Pennsylvania
* Pennsylvania Railroad train disaster
This 44 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "Sports Train Wrecked; 25 Killed, Scores Hurt" with subheads. This tells of the derailment of a Pennsylvania Railroad... Read full description -
Item #574835LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, January 13, 1962
* Ernie Kovacs killed (1st report)
* Famous comedian actor
This 8 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Kovacs Killed In Car Crash". Tells of the death of famed comedian Ernie Kovacs.
Other news of the day. The paper is in good condition.
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Item #574833LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, November 24, 1962
* United Airlines Flight 297 crash
* Vickers Viscount 745D airplane
* Ellicott City MD Maryland Columbia
This 8 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "Engine Failure Believed Cause of Maryland Crash" with caption:... Read full description -
Item #574815LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominister, Massachusetts, December 15, 1961
* Evans CO Colorado - Greeley
* Children's school bus disaster
This 12 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "A Mournful Yule in Greeley" with caption: "20 Of Its Children Dead"
This tells of the school bus and train collision... Read full description -
Item #574767LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, January 6, 1960
* Bolivia, North Carolina
* National Airlines Flight 2511
* Douglas DC-6B airplane
This 20 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "Plane With 34 Persons Crashes In Bolivia, N.C." with subheads. (see)
Tells of the... Read full description -
Item #574764LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, January 19, 1960 This 8 page newspaper has a six column headline on the front page: "50 Killed As Fog-Lost Airliner Smashes Into Hilltop In Virginia" with subhead: "Fire Consumes Jet Prop Craft"
This tells of Capital Airlines Flight 20 airplane crash disaster at Holdcroft,... Read full description -
Item #574762LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, March 18, 1960
* Flight 710 airplane crash disaster
* Lockheed L-188 Electra
* Cannelton IN (Tell City, Indiana)
This 10 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "Investigators Probe Blast-Torn Airliner" with subhead "Four-Engine Craft Carries 63 to... Read full description -
Item #574759LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, March 2, 1960 This 18 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page:"17 Persons Die In Fiery Crash" with caption: "Train, Oil Rig Collide"
This tells of the crash and explosion of the Streamline train San Francisco Chief and a giant oil truck... Read full description -
Item #574539FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, December 2, 1959
* Montoursville, Pennsylvania
* Airplane crash disaster
This 28 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "One Survives, 25 Die In Plane Crash". This tells of the Allegheny Airlines airplane crash in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.
Other news of the day.... Read full description -
Item #574516FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 4, 1959
* American Airlines Flight 320
* Lockheed L-188A Electra airplane crash
* LaGuardia Airport, New York City
This22 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "Plane Crash Kills 65" with caption and subhead (see photos).
Tells of American Airlines Flight... Read full description -
Item #574515FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, March 19, 1959
* Beavercreek, Ohio
* Girl Scouts train-car disaster
This 20 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Train, Car Crash--10 Die" with caption: "8 Girl Scouts Victims In Ohio Mishap" which tells of the freight train, station wagon... Read full description -
Item #574453THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, November 2, 1956
* Springhill mine explosion disaster
* Nova Scotia, Canada
This 48 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "108 Men Trapped in Nova Scotia Mine Blast" with subheads. (see)
Tells of the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia,... Read full description -
Item #574117THE NORWICH SUN, New York, June 11, 1930
* Jake Lingle assassination... Chicago reporter
* Al Capone - Gangsters
This 12 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page:
"AGENCIES SPURRED TO FEVERISH HEAT IN HUNT FOR LINGLE SLAYER" "Public Opinion Demands Complete and Sudden End to Gang Reigns and Hired Murderers--Threaten... Read full description -
Item #573975THE OMAHA EVENING BEE, Omaha, Nebraska, June 17, 1926 This 18 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "RAIL WRECK KILLS 15" with subheads. (see)
This tells of the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger trains disaster at Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
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Item #573878THE COLDWATER DAILY REPORTER, Michigan, August 24, 1926
* Famous movie actor death
* Rudolph Valentino
This 6 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page:
"MILLIONS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO DEAD IDOL" and "Crowds Clamor for Last Look at Valentino Remains, Lying in State".
Other news of the day. Usual... Read full description -
Item #573730THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, September 12, 1950
* Coshocton OH Ohio train wreck
* Spirit of St. Louis
* United States soldiers killed
This 26 page newspaper has a three column headline on page 2: "Flyer Rams Troop Train; 33 Killed" with related photos on the back page (pg. 26).
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day... Read full description -
Item #573692SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, December 19, 1908
* Early bi-plane airplane
* Military reconnaissance
The entire front page is a nice illustration captioned: "The Aeroplane Military Scout" being a nice print showing an early biplane in a military reconnaissance role. An inside page has a related article. A very... Read full description -
Item #573608THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Nebraska, February 28, 1921
* Porter, Indiana
* Train wreck disaster
This 8 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page:
"27 ARE KILLED IN INDIANA WRECK" with subheads (see photos).
Tells of the New York Central passenger train wreck disaster at Porter, Indiana in which 44 people would... Read full description -
Item #573550LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, February 7, 1951 This 14 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "TOLL IN N. J. TRAIN WRECK NOW 82 DEAD AND ABOUT 500 INJURED" with subheads. (see)'
This tells of the Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train 'The Broker' disaster at Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Other... Read full description -
Item #573113CHRONICLE AND NEWS, Allentown, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1927
* Clarence Chamberlin
* Bellanca monoplane Columbia
* Transatlantic flight - Atlantic Ocean
This 20 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "CHAMBERLIN LANDS IN BERLIN; COMPLETES FLIGHT" with subheads and related pictorial. (see)
Light... Read full description -
Item #573093THE COLDWATER DAILY REPORTER, Coldwater, Michigan, dated August 17, 1935
* Will Rogers
* Wiley Post
* Airplane crash - deaths
This 6 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page that include: "BODIES OF POST AND ROGERS ON WAY TO JUNEAU" and more (see images).
Other news and advertisements of the day. Usual browning with... Read full description -
Item #572871THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, October 27, 1925 This 14 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page:
* TRAIN TOPPLES INTO RAVINE; 20 ARE KILLED
Tells of the Sunnyland, Frisco passenger train wreck at Victoria, Mississippi after derailment.
Other news of the day. A few tiny binding holes along the spine, otherwise in... Read full description -
Item #572768THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18, 1948
* United Airlines Flight 624 disaster
* Douglas DC-6 airliner airplane crash
* Mount Mt. Carmel PA Pennsylvania
This 40 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "43 Die as Plane Hits Live Wire, Explodes" with subheads and photo of the crash site. (see) More... Read full description -
Item #572521LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, December 17, 1951
* Elizabeth, New Jersey disaster
* Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando airplane
This 8 page newspaper has a four headline on the front page: "Former Resident Here Heads One Inquiry Into Air Crash" with subhead. (see)
Tells of the C-46 airplane crash disaster at Elizabeth, New... Read full description -
Item #572477THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, Nebraska, January 23, 1927
* Baylor basketball team (The Immortal Ten)
* Round Rock TX Texas disaster (1st report)
This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include:
* 10 Students Die as Train, Bus Crash
* Crack Athletes of Baylor University Lose Lives in Fatal Accident; Bodies Dragged and... Read full description -
Item #572390THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, January 23, 1930
* Berea OH Ohio
* Train - school bus tragedy
This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "9 PUPILS IN BUS KILLED BY TRAIN", "Driver Also Dies When Central Mailer Rams Vehicle at Crossing"
This tells of the school bus - train disaster at Berea,... Read full description -
Item #572212THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, December 15, 1933 This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include:
* 10 CHILDREN DIE AS SCHOOL BUS IS HIT BY TRUCK
* 4 of Dead Are Members of One Family; Dense Fog and Poor Visibility Are Blamed in Florida Crash
and more. (see)
This tells of school bus disaster... Read full description -
Item #572204ALBANY EVENING NEWS, Albany, New York, December 27, 1934 This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "13 ARE KILLED IN BLAST OF MINER ENGINE" "20 More Injured as Train Is Torn Asunder by Explosion" and more. (see)
This tells of the boiler explosion of miners' locomotive of the... Read full description -
Item #572165THE TIMES PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4, 1932
* Al Capone heads for prison for tax evasion
* Chicago gangster boss
This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 3: "CAPONE, SMILING, HURRIED BY HEAVY GUARDS TO TRAIN", "Dethroned Gangster Due at Atlanta Penitentiary Tonight", with smaller subheads (see images).
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Item #572118THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, June 20, 1938
* Custer Creek, Montana train wreck
* Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul crack train "Olympian"
* Miles City, Montana
This 28 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "Creek Defies Hunt for Wreck Dead" with subheads and large photo of the disaster area (see photos). Also... Read full description -
Item #572063LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, August 24 & 25, 1938
* Frank Hawks killed in airplane crash
* Aviation - aviator
The Aug. 24th issue has one column headlines on page 5 include: "Frank Hawks, Noted Flier, Dies In Crash" "Socialite Companion Also Perishes In Blazing Plane" "HIT WIRE"... Read full description -
Item #571981LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, January 31, 1961
* Ham the Chimp
* 1st into space
* Mercury-Redstone 2 space flight
This 8 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Space Ride For Chimp Is Delayed"
Tells of the very 1st hominid to be launched into outer space.
Other news of the day... Read full description -
Item #571403THE 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".
Tells of the Stockton, Georgia train collision that killed many Negro railroad... Read full description -
Item #571136THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, December 11, 1946
* Walter Johnson death
* Washington Senators
This 64 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 31 that include: "WALTER JOHNSON DIES IN CAPITAL, 59" "Pitching Star for Washington Senators 21 Years Held Many Baseball Records" and more with photo of Johnson. Nice to... Read full description -
Item #571110BETHLEHEM DAILY TIMES, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1867
* From the Indian Wars era
* 19th century Bethlehem, Pennsylvania original
This issue has many small reports on local news and political news. There is an article on the "Union Pacific Railroad." The rest of the issue consists of ads of all kinds. (see photos) There are several... Read full description -
Item #571074THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, November 28, 1933
* Famous San Jose, California lynchings
* Brooke Hart murder
This 18 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "ROLPH SAYS PARDON AWAITS LYNCHERS OF HART KILLERS" with subheads and related photo. (see) Loads of text, too much to photograph.
Tells of the... Read full description -
Item #570941THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, August 28, 1926
* John Rodgers death
* United States Navy
* Delaware River airplane crash
This 16 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Comdr. Rodgers Killed When Airplane Crashes; Late Brother Lived Here" with photo. (see)
Tells of the death of John... Read full description
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