Historic Newspapers: Search Results

THE NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 24, 1863

• Return of General Meade
• Affairs at Vicksburg

• Battle at Bristoe Station

The front page has: "Particulars of the Fight at Colliersville" "Affairs In And About

THE DOWNFALL OF BABYLON, New York, Oct. 24, 1835  A quite rare & unusual weekly (later semi-monthly) newspaper with strong anti-Catholic leanings published by: "Samuel B. Smith, Late a Popish

THE BETHLEHEM TIMES, Oct. 24, 1918

• The Spanish flu pandemic
• H1N1 influenza A virus

The front page has a two-column heading: "211 NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA AND 7 DEATHS" with subhead. (see images)
Sixteen

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Oct. 24, 1798

• The XYZ Affair - France relations
• John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
• Battle if the Nile (Napoleon/Nelson)

The front page has an address: "To John Adams, President

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1944

• Battle of Leyte Gulf - Sibuyan Sea
• Philippines - William Halsey
• Largest naval battle in history

The front page has a three column heading: "LEYTE DRIVE GAINS" with

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, October 24, 1930

• Gangster Joe Aiello assassination
• Sicilian Mafia leader - bootlegger
• Al 'Scarface' Capone rival
• Chicago gangland war

The top of the front page has a one

POUGHKEEOSIE NEW YORKER, New York, Oct. 24, 1950

• Al Jolson death (1st report)
• "The Jazz Singer" fame
• Singer - comedian actor

The front page has a three-line heading: "Al Jolson Dies With a Quip on His

THE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL & THE WEEKLY ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 1771  This newspaper features one of the larger & more decorative masthead engravings to be found in a colonial America

THE LOG CABIN, New York, Oct. 24, 1840  The famous campaign newspaper published by Horace Greeley in support of William Henry Harrison in the 1840 election, its success carrying over to many issues

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Nebraska, Oct. 24, 1894

• Bill Cook Gang

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "DESPERADOES IN CONTROL" with subheads. (see images) Coverage on the infamous Bill

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1928

• 1st review of the debut of Animal Crackers, featuring The Mark Brothers
• François Victor Alphonse Aulard death... 1st French historian of French Revolution

Page 29

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 24, 1963

• The Living Theatre - experimental theater
• Avant-garde - Julian Beck - Judith Malina
• Closed for bankruptcy - tax evasion crime

The

MEMPHIS MORNING NEWS, Tennessee, Oct. 24, 1903  The front page has an interesting article headed: "NEARLY A MILLION IMMIGRANTS IN 1903", followed by the subhead: "All Records Broken in the Number of

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 24, 1968

• David Peel & The Lower East Side Band
• "Have a Marijuana" debut album advertisement
• CREAM British rock band - Spectrum concert ad
• Er

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1861  This was an anti-war newspaper that insisted slavery should not be abolished, so consequently much content has an anti-North bias.

Among the articles: "War

ILLUSTRATED  LONDON NEWS, England, Oct. 24, 1891  Among the many prints within is a very nice, doublepage centerfold captioned: "Canadian North-West Farming: Reaping the Harvest in Manitoba",

NEW YORK HERALD---EXTRA, Oct. 24, 1842   This "Extra" edition is a smaller size format with the entire four pages taken up with: "A Full Report of the 15th Fair of the American Institute". There are

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Oct. 24, 1795

• President George Washington
• Brunswick County, Virginia

Page 2 has the: "Answer Of the President to the Brunswick, Virginia, Proceedings" relating to the Jay

HARRISBURGER MORGENROTHE, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24, 1833

• Rare publication
• German language newspaper

A quite scarce newspaper for the German-speaking community in the Harrisburg area,

THE PROHIBITION BANNER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24, 1884

• Rare temperance movement publication
• Abstinence of alcohol - beer - liquor

As the title would suggest, this is a prohibition-themed

SAN DIEGO DAILY UNION, California, Oct. 24, 1871  Very early from San Diego--a volume 2 issue--when the population was just 2300, with a nice engraving of the harbor in the masthead. 
All pages have

WOODSTOCK OBSERVER, Vermont, Oct. 24, 1820

• Rare Windsor County publication

The only other issue of this title we have offered in the last 30+ years is from 1829. This is the volume 1, number 42

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 24, 1884

• 19th century African American baseball players

Page 8 has a rather detailed report headed: "Why Two Colored Nines Failed to Finish" which is a report on this

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 24, 1863

• Jefferson Davis speech to troops
• Battle of Bristow - Virginia

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Late Southern News" "The Engagement at Bristow

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 1859

• John Brown's insurrection - invasion - raid
• Harpers Ferry WV West Virginia

Page 3 has a report on the raid upon Harper's Ferry by John

THE PITTSBURGH RECORDER, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24, 1822  A volume one issue of a quite uncommon and very early religious periodical from Western Penna.
Sixteen pages various foxing throughout, 5 1/4 by

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1942

• Eddie Rickenbacker goes missing (1st report)
• American World War I airplane fighter ace
• Would be adrift at sea for 24 days

Near the bottom of the front page is a

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1933.

• John Dillinger gang
• Greencastle, Indiana
• Largest bank robbery

The back page has a small & discrete report from Greencastle, Ind. that begins with: "Four men

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Oct. 24, 1896

• Princeton University
• Prints - illustrations

The full ftpg. has 6 photo prints of notable buildings on the campus of Princeton University, this issue

NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Oct. 24, 1866  The conclusion of the Civil War brought with it an interest in expending west, so it would not seem unusual that articles that read like a 19th century

THE WORLD, New York, Oct. 24, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "No Further Pursuit of the Enemy" "The Radical Programme Extinguished by the President" "News From

THE MORNING CALL, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24, 1945  The front page has a 2 column article: "Vidkun Quisling Reported Executed by Firing Squad".  The Premier of Norway during the Nazi invasion was

WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, North Carolina, Oct. 24, 1945

• Precursor to Presidential Fitness Test
• Truman Speech to Congress to establish Universal Military Training

The front page has a 3 column heading:

HERALD EXPRESS, WAR EXTRA, Los Angeles, Oct. 24, 1942

• Second Battle of El Alamein begins
• World War II Egypt - Africa
• German General Erwin Rommel

The front page has a nice banner headline: "BIG EGYPT

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1936

• Denver Zephyr speed record
• Streamliner passenger train
• Travel speed record

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Burlington Zephyr Sets New

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 24, 1934

• Jean Piccard ballooning
• Stratosphere flight

The front page has one column headlines that include: "PICCARD BALLOON LANDS IN TREETOP" "Scientists Believe

WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, October 24, 1906

• Oscar Strauss (politician)
• 1st Jew in presidential cabinet
• Jewish - Judaica - Hebrew

The front page has the 2-line, 2-column heading: "SEVERAL

THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 24, 1812  Among the articles are: "Distillation of Spirits" and a chart headed: "The War on the Ocean" "The British in the Peninsula".
Under the heading: "Events

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, October 24, 1947

• Bar Harbor, Maine fire
• Mount Desert Island
• Acadia National Park

The front page has a nice banner headline announcing: "FLEE BAR HARBOR FIRE BY

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, October 24, 1865

• Pithole, Pennsylvania & more

The back page begins with: "THE PETROLEUM FIELDS" "Survey of the Venango Region" "Personnel of the Excursion" "At Corry" "Down to Oil

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, October 24, 1943

• Palm Beach, Florida
• Tankers collision & explosion disaster

This 70+ page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "88 PERISH

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 24, 1863

• Jefferson Davis address to the troops

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Late Southern News" "The Engagement at Bristow Station" "Apologies For

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Missouri, October 24, 1875

• The Masque of Pandora
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many interesting advertisements. Page 2

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Missouri, October 24, 1878

• Gale of 1878
• Hurricane disaster
• East Coast & New England

This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many interesting advertisements.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 24, 1864  The front page has one column heads on the Civil War including: "Our Armies In Virginia" "Sheridan's Great Victory" "The Rout & Demoralization of the Rebel Army"

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, October 24, 1870

• Laurens County, South Carolina
• Columbia, SC riot

The front page has a small and somewhat discrete heading: "Riot At Columbia, S. C.--Several Persons Killed". See

DESERET EVENING NEWS, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Oct. 24, 1876  From this "territory" 20 years before Utah would become a state. Inside has: "The Indians--300 Lodges Captured, Disarmed &

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, October 24, 1939

• Zane Grey death
• American Author

This 14 page newspaper has a small one column headline on the back page: "Zane Grey, Beloved Western Author,

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24, 1864

• Battle of Cedar Creek
• Gen. Philip H. Sheridan

Among the ftpg. first column heads are: "Army Of The James" "Success of Gen.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, October 24, 1935

• Arthur Dutch Schultz Flegenheimer shot
• Early report as he was not officially dead yet

This 26 page newspaper has one column headlines on