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Item #585626THE WORLD, New York City, May 20, 1891
* Tarrytown, NY explosion disaster
This 14 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "THE EARTH SHAKEN", "An Appalling Explosion Of Dynamite", "Railroad Laborers Blown Into Atoms at Tarrytown" and more with related illustrations. There is lots of text which... Read full description -
Item #585603THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, September 27, 1930
* Golfer Bobby Jones
* Grand Slam 4 Majors
* Day of achievement
This 24 page newspaper has a two column headlines on the front page that include: "Homans Stages Sensational Comeback to Beat Seavers; Plays Jones for Title Today" and more. Jones would win... Read full description -
Item #585598THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia, July 5, 1918
* Mehmed V death
* Ottoman Sultan
* Turkey - Turkish
This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the back page (pg. 12): "SULTAN OF TURKEY CALLED BY DEATH", "Passing of Mohammed V. Is Reported by Constantinople Dispatch Received by War of Vienna".
See photo for brief 1st... Read full description -
Item #585597THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 21, 1917
* Christy Mathewson arrested
* Sunday blue law violated
* Baseball - John McGraw
This 20 page newspaper has one column headings on page 3: "M'Graw And 'Matty' Summoned To Court", "Police Charge Sunday Benefit Game for 69th Was Part of National League Schedule". See photo for brief... Read full description -
Item #585584THE NEW YORK HERALD, Jan. 23, 1860
* Pemberton Mill disaster
* Lawrence Massachusetts MA
* Roof Collapse
The first column on the front page has; "More Of The Lawrence Massacre" "Further Particulars as to the Pemberton Mills" "Graphic Descriptions of the Other Mills--Condition of the Operatives--Their Pay--Influx of... Read full description -
Item #585570THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 25, 1922
* Robert Erskine Childers executed
* Irish Nationalist
* Irish Civil war
This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "CHILDERS EXECUTED BY THE FREE STATE; REPRISALS FEARED", "Military Court's Sentence Is Carried Out After Night of Rebel... Read full description -
Item #585514THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Nebraska, November 11, 1915
* Great Bend, Kansas tornado
* SS Ancona sinking
This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "12 KILLED, OVER 100 INJURED IN KANSAS TWISTER", "Fifty Residences, Santa Fe Depot, Water Plant and Three Flouring Mills... Read full description -
Item #585513THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Nebraska, November 10, 1915
* SS Ancona sinking (1st report)
* German U-Boat U-38
This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "AUSTRIAN SUBSEA TORPEDOES LINER; HUNDREDS PERISH", "Large Underseas Boat Sinks Italian Steamer Ancona and But 270 of Nearly 500 Aboard Landed", and more... Read full description -
Item #585508SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, May 16, 1768 The front page is taken up with a wide variety of news reports from London including one item noting: "...the colony agents have orders...to obtain an act of Parliament for the encouragement of the linen manufactury in North America...". An inside page has reports from "Boston"... Read full description -
Item #585491THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 30, 1939
* Nile Kinnick "All American" team choice
* Iowa Hawkeyes - NCAA college football
* Maxwell Award trophy
This 44 page newspaper has one column headlines in the sport's section (page 26): "ALL-AMERICA POST IS WON BY KINNICK" and "Iowa Back Draws 577 Votes for 1939 Eleven Selected in... Read full description -
Item #585485THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 30, 1937
* Pittsburgh Panthers
* National champions (1st report)
* NCAA college football
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines in the sport's section (page 28) that include:
"29 OF 33 EXPERTS VOTE FOR PANTHERS"
"Pitt Team Totals 327 Points, California 277, Fordham 253 and... Read full description -
Item #585467PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Prescott, Arizona, August 18, 1931
* East Texas oil fields
* Martial law in effect
* Gov. Ross S. Sterling
This 44 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "TROOPS SHUT WELLS IN TEXAS OIL FIELDS", "Governor Declares Martial Law In Four Counties to Stop Production in Area"... Read full description -
Item #585456THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, April 15, 1922
* Cap 'Pop' Anson death (1st report)
* Major league baseball MLB
This 18 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 13: "SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL TO ADRIAN 'POP' ANSON", "Grand Old Man of Baseball Dies After Week's Sickness. Was 70 Years Old".... Read full description -
Item #585454THE NEWS SCIMITAR, Memphis, Tennessee, May 26, 1922
* Babe Ruth & Ban Johnson
* Fight with umpire & fan
* Suspended from baseball
This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines in the sport's section (page 22): "BABE RUTH IS SUSPENDED BY PRES. JOHNSON", "Bambino Can't Play Until Investigation Is Made of... Read full description -
Item #585447THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, June 5, 1921
* Pueblo, Colorado flood disaster
This 40+ page Sunday newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "500 LIVES ARE LOST WHEN RAGING TORRENT SWEEPS OVER PUEBLO", "Many Trapped Like Rats", "Other Towns Stricken" and more. 1st report coverage on the... Read full description -
Item #585440THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER, Scotland, May 23, 1780 Page 2 has: "...from the force carried out with Sir Henry Clinton to South Carolina, there is room to entertain the most favourable hopes of the success of his enterprise. With Sir Henry Clinton, from New York, went 7500 men..." with more (see photos). Elsewhere... Read full description -
Item #585417THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, November 19, 1939
* Nile Kinnick stars - Iowa Hawkeyes
* Minnesota Golden Gophers upset
This 50+ page Sunday newspaper has various college football reports in the sport's section with a one column heading on the front page of this section (inside, near back): "Hawkeye Rally in Final Period Beats... Read full description -
Item #585414SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 22, 1897 Within the issue is a small but very early illustrated advertisement for a "Complete electric railway with battery and track..." from the Carlisle & Finch company. Ad measures about 1 by 2 1/2 inches on one of the back pages. Also in the issue is "Southern Station... Read full description -
Item #585399PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Arizona, July 30, 1931
* Gangster Al Capone's tax evasion case
This 6 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "CAPONE WILL BE SENTENCED TODAY", "Gangster Spends Last day Of Freedom Hiding From His Foes". On this day, Al "Scarface" Capone would change his plea to not... Read full description -
Item #585398NEW YORK TRIBUNE, January 16, 1922
* Irish Free State established
* Dublin Ireland
* Michael Collins
This 18 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "Irish Free State Takes Reins Today", "Provisional Cabinet to Assume Administration of South Ireland With Departure of the British", "Sinn Fein to... Read full description -
Item #585379THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, May 23, 1885
* Victor Hugo death (1st report)
The front page has one column headlines that include: "VICTOR HUGO DEAD", "After a Painful Illness the Famous Author Joins the Silent Majority", "His Demise Causes a Widespread Gloom Over Parisian Social and Political Circles" and more. 1st report... Read full description -
Item #585360THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, May 13, 1886
* Tornadoes outbreak
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines that include: "ANOTHER CYCLONE", "The Village of Odell, Ill., the Scene of Death and Destruction by Wind", "Several Lives Lost and a Large Amount of Property Destroyed at Evansville, Ind." and more. 1st... Read full description -
Item #585338SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Springfield, Massachusetts, May 20, 1918
* Oakdale PA Pennsylvania explosion
* Aetna Chemical Company disaster
This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "RUINS YIELDS DEAD", "Scene Is Desolate", "Recover 56 Bodies" and more (see photos). Coverage on the... Read full description -
Item #585330WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, Wilmington, North Carolina, August 27, 1929
* Graf Zeppelin around World flight (airship)
* Historic aviation feat near the end
This10 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "ZEPPELIN TO FINISH LAST LEG OF WORLD FLIGHT TOMORROW" with subheads (see photos).
Other news, sports and advertisements... Read full description -
Item #585294THE DETROIT FREE PRESS - PARADE, Detroit, Michigan, September 25, 1955 The front of this issue contains a photo of Hopalong Cassady with an inside accompanying article "Hopalong: Ohio State's BIG little man" which includes additional photos.
Also included is an article "Polio report... The Salk Vaccine is Good - But Better... Read full description -
Item #585270THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, November 14, 1887
* Bloody Sunday riot
* Trafalgar Square, London
* Coercion in Ireland
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "RIOT REIGNS", "Serious Conflicts Between Police and Paraders in London Yesterday", "Trafalgar Square Surrounded by a Mob... Read full description -
Item #585237THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, May 13, 1887
* James A Garfield monument
* Washington D.C. unveiling
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "GARFIELD", "The Memory of the Martyred Son of Ohio Honored at Washington", "The Unveiling of the Heroic Bronze Statue Erected By the Brave... Read full description -
Item #585233THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, April 16, 1887
* Bowling Green OH Ohio
* Oil and gas boom
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "GAS AT BOWLING GREEN", "The Wonderful Resources of the Chief Town of Wood County" and more. The text takes up over two full columns.
Other news and... Read full description -
Item #585231THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Ohio, September 1, 1887
* Henri Pranzini guillotined
This 8 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page that include: "PRANZINI GUILLOTINED", "The Blood-Thirsty Parisian Murderer Meets His Just Dwserts With a Defiant Air" and more. See images for text on the execution of Henri... Read full description -
Item #585221THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, March 9, 1888
* German Emperor, William I death
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "THE END", "The Eventful Life of the German Emperor Brought to a Close", "The Aged Kaiser Passes Peacefully Away at 8:30 This Morning" and more with a great... Read full description -
Item #585213THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Ohio, March 4, 1881
* James A. Garfield inauguration (day of)
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "INAUGURATION", "Washington a Wilderness of Flags of Every Kind", "THE CABINET", "Hotels, Boarding Houses and Legislative Halls", "Filled,... Read full description -
Item #585195THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 7, 1864 Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "THE GRAND MOVEMENT" "The Advance Into Virginia" "The Rebel Army Falling Back on Richmond" "Highly Important from the Peninsula" "Gen. Butler's Army Lands Successfully at City Point" "Cavalry Fighting at... Read full description -
Item #585183THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 28, 1865
* General Robert E. Lee
* Commander-in-Chief
* Jefferson Davis
Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "The Peace Bubble" "Result of Mr. Blair's Mission" "He Admits It To Be 'A Failure' " "The Terms of Jeff.... Read full description -
Item #585171THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS, Burlington, Vermont, March 2, 1934
* Primo Carnera vs. Tommy Loughran
* Heavyweight boxing title fight
This 16 page newspaper has two column headlines on page 4 that include: "Carnera, 270, Outpoints Tommy Loughran, 184, In Fifteen Round Bout" and more with round per round coverage. Other news, sports and... Read full description -
Item #585165THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, June 25, 1926
* Bobby Jones wins British Open
* PGA golf (1st report)
This 40+ page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "BOBBY JONES WINS IN OPEN" and "Finishes 72-Hole Championship Play With 291; Beats Waltrous by 2"
1st report coverage on famous golfer Bobby Jones winning the... Read full description -
Item #585164THE NEWS, Frederick, Maryland, November 6, 1943
* Bombing of Vatican City
* Single German airplane
* World War II - WWII
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "Vatican City Raid Bears Out Warning Allies Gave" and "They Predicted Nazis Would Do Bombing..." which was an air raid by just one German airplane... Read full description -
Item #585161THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Ohio, November 9, 1880
* Sarah Bernhardt New York City debut
* Famous French stage actress
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "BERNHARDT'S DEBUT", "The Great Theatrical Event in New York", "Her Appearance Greeted by an Audience of 4,000 People" ... Read full description -
Item #585149THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, February 12, 1929
* Lily Langtry death
* British actress "Jersey Lily"
This 46 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "LILY LANGTRY, BEAUTY, DEAD", "Famous for Her Friendship With King Edward VII When He Was Prince of Wales" with photos. This is a... Read full description -
Item #585145THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, March 13, 1888
* Great blizzard of 1888
* New York, New Jersey & more
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "In The Snow King's Grip", "Rude Old Boreas Makes a Sudden Descent on New York", "Worst Blizzard ever Known In The State",... Read full description -
Item #585144THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, December 17, 1945
* Cleveland Rams win NFL football championship
* (St. Louis)
* Washington Redskins
This 10 page newspaper has a six column headline on page 6: "Cleveland Wins National Pro Football Championship" with subheads, lineup and photo of Bob Waterfield (see images).
Other news, sports... Read full description -
Item #585143THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 18, 1939
* Al 'Scarface' Capone
* Chicago gangland gangster
* Release from prison
This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on the back page (pg. 36) that include: "AL CAPONE STARTS BRAIN TREATMENT", "Ex-Gangster Is 'Chronically but Not Acutely Ill,' Says Baltimore... Read full description -
Item #585132THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 9, 1947
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish
* National champions (1st report)
* NCAA college football
This 60 page newspaper has one column headings in the sport's section (page 41): "NOTRE DAME VOTED NATION'S TOP TEAM", "Irish Take Honors for Second Year in Row in Writers' Poll--Michigan Next"... Read full description -
Item #585127PRESCOTT MINER JOURNAL, Arizona, August 29, 1929
* LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (airship)
* 1st to fly around the World (historic)
* Hugo Eckener
This 8 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "GRAF VISITS AT AIR DERBY THEN COMPLETES TRIP" and more.
The front page also includes a banner headline "Death Toll Mounts As... Read full description -
Item #585123THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 14, 1940
* Nile Kinnick receives All-America award
* Iowa Hawkeyes - NCAA college football
This 100+ page Sunday newspaper has small one column headings on page 4 of the sport's section: "Kinnick, Iowa, Honored", "Receives All-America Board's Captain's Cup Here". See photo for text here. Other... Read full description -
Item #585080THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN, Scranton, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1885
* Battle of Gettysburg
* Reunion of veterans
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "GETTYSBURG'S BATTLEFIELD", "Historical Visit Of Veterans" and more. Lengthy text takes up over 1 1/2 columns.
Other news and... Read full description -
Item #585070PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Arizona, August 2, 1931
* Thomas Edison's health takes downturn
This 6 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page: "THOMAS EDISON SERIOUSLY ILL", "Three Physicians Caring For Inventor At His West Orange Home". 1st report coverage on the famous inventor's illness in which he... Read full description -
Item #585065PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Prescott, Arizona, July 4, 1931
* Max Schmeling vs. Young Stribling
* Heavyweight boxing title match
This 6 page newspaper has a banner headline on page 3: "Schmeling Victor by Technical Knockout in 15th" with subhead "Bout is Stopped at Beginning of Fifteenth Round".
Other news of the day. Light browning... Read full description -
Item #585063THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, June 20, 1946
* Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn
* Heavyweight boxing championship bout
This 14 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "Bomber KO's Conn in Eighth" and more with photo of Louis (see photos). More information in the sport's section... Read full description -
Item #585044THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 3, 1940
* Minnesota Golden Gophers
* National champions (1st report)
* NCAA college football
This 52 page newspaper has one column headlines in the sport's section (page 35) that include: "MINNESOTA RATED TOP TEAM OF 1940", "Gophers Finish First in Final Associated Press Poll of Football... Read full description -
Item #585026THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, May 3, 1946
* Battle of Alcatraz prison
* Prison break attempt
This 22 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "Armed Convicts Hold Alcatraz Guards in Cell" and more (see images).
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. A few small binding holes along the... Read full description
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