Newspapers

Montgomery County, Alabama Newspapers

Hosted at Montgomery County, USGenWeb Archives Project Excerpts Of Interest From The Montgomery Daily Advertiser – 1866, Montgomery, Alabama Excerpts Of Interest From The Montgomery Daily Advertiser: 1871 – 1872, Montgomery, Alabama Excerpts Of Interest From “Southern Plantation,” January – March 1875, Montgomery, Alabama Interments Reported January 1, 1881, Montgomery, Alabama Interments Reported January 20, 1881, Montgomery, Alabama Social Calendar, Alabama Journal News, June 8, 1944, Montgomery, Alabama Social Calendar, Alabama Journal News, June 6, 1944, Montgomery, Alabama James C. Keefe Receives His Son’s (Robert J. Keefe) Posthumous Award, June 6, 1944, Montgomery, Alabama St. Mark’s Methodist Church Society Holds … Read more

Pike County, Alabama Newspapers

Hosted at Pike County, USGenWeb Archives Project Newspapers – Anderson, Run Away Slave – Pike Co., Al Newspapers – Largest Apple! – Pike Co., Al Confederate Mothers Yet Living – Pike Co., Al The Past! The Dead! July 11 1872 Sharon Church — Ordination Of Deacons. July 11 1872 Robert Elmer (Elmo) Phelps September 19 1936 Mr. Levi Edge January 23 1881 Capt. Bird Fitzpatrick January 25 1881 Unidentified Man March 30 1936 Death Notice January 28 1881 Death Notice January 29 1881 Brundidge Storm Life Toll Four April 14 1937 Grantham Kills Huge Rattler September 5 1936 Troy Boy … Read more

Randolph County, Alabama Newspapers

Hosted at Randolph County, USGenWeb Archives Project Articles about Churches Articles on the History of Some Organizations Estate Notices Other Individual Articles The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1896-1899 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1900-1904 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1905 – 1909 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1910 – 1914 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1915 – 1919 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1920-1924 The Randolph Leader Abstracts: 1925 -1929 The Randolph Toiler Newspaper – Whole Month Abstracts  

Wilcox County, Alabama Newspapers

Hosted at Wilcox County, USGenWeb Archives Project Excerpts Of Interest From “Southern Plantation,” January – March 1875, Montgomery, Alabama A Tribute To The Memory Of Maj. S. A. Barnett June 23 1904 Mr. John Mcduffie, Sr. Killed June 30 1904 Prominent Man Killed September 8 1904 Jim Andrews And Wife Killed December 22 1904 Wagon Contest April 14 1904 Albert Watson Visit June 30 1904 Shooting In Monroe County May 28 1903 Accidental Shooting At Forest Home December 17 1903 Death Of Ervin Ennis January 7 1904 Lucinda Pharr Killed January 27 1904 Arthur Brooks Released On Bond February 25 … Read more

Alabama Newspaper Transcriptions

Winchester Star

Newspapers can be used to find valuable genealogical information about historical events in the lives of our ancestors. They supply all sorts of clues about vital statistics (birth, marriage, and death announcements), obituaries, local news, biographical sketches, legal notices, immigration, migration, and shipping information and other historical items that place our ancestors in the context of the society in which they lived. Statewide Resources: Hosted at Ancestry.com Alabama Newspapers and Periodicals $ This manuscript details all Newspapers and Periodicals published in 1915. It is organized by county. Historical Newspaper Collection $ Read history as it was happening in more than … Read more

The Press Of Idaho

In the promotion and conservation of advancement in all the normal lines of human progress and civilization there is no factor which has exercised a more potent influence than the press, which is both the director and the mirror of public opinion. Idaho, both as a territory and a state, has been signally favored in the character of its newspapers, which have been vital, enthusiastic and progressive, ever aiming to advance the interests of this favored section of the Union, to aid in laying fast and sure the foundations of an enlightened commonwealth, to further the ends of justice and … Read more

Biographical Sketch of E. I. Woodman

Mr. Woodman is one of the leading newspaper men of the county, his sphere of activity being South San Francisco where he is the editor and manager of The Enterprise. He is also secretary of the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, a body that has been instrumental toward the substantial up-building of its city, in which Mr. Woodman in his two-fold capacity as newspaper man and civic booster, has taken no small part. Mr. Woodman has been in the newspaper business for over forty years, coming from Sacramento in June, 1907 where he was also engaged in the newspaper … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Horace H. Walling

Horace H. Walling has been a resident of San Mateo County since October, 1905. He was born in Kirkville, Iowa, on December 5th, 1869. In 1882 his parents came to California, locating in Woodland, Yolo County, where he finished his education in the public schools. Upon leaving school he entered the office of the Woodland Mail to learn the printing trade and journalism, and for a number of years followed the printing and publishing business. During his newspaper experience he was the founder and owner of one of the principal papers of Placerville, El Dorado County. In 1901 he became … Read more

Biographical Sketch of James Vincent Swift

James Vincent Swift, postmaster of Redwood City and editor and proprietor of the Redwood City Democrat, is one of the county’s best known and respected citizens. Born in January 1862 at West Union, a few miles from Redwood, Mr. Swift has lived and wrought his career in San Mateo County. After receiving his early education in the Redwood schools Mr. Swift entered the printing office of the Times-Gazette at the early age of seventeen. He soon mastered the mechanical and editorial ends of the paper and in 1898 he had advanced sufficiently to buy a half interest in the Democrat. … Read more

Biographical Sketch of D. A. Raybould

One of San Mateo County’s newcomers who has risen to a place of esteem in the community is D. A. Raybould of the San Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Raybould is known in all parts of the county as one of its wide awake, energetic young men who has at heart the welfare of the county as well as the interests of his paper. During the few years that Mr. Raybould has represented the Chronicle in San Mateo county he has enjoyed a reputation for fairness. His news articles have kept the peninsula cities in the foreground and not a day passes … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Paul Pinckney

Under the head of “The Press” comes the name of Paul Pinckney, one of the foremost newspaper men of the county, and editor and proprietor of the San Mateo Times. Mr. Pinckney was born in South Carolina on March 24, 1869. His early education was accomplished in the common-schools and supplemented by a course under private tutors. At fifteen, instead of going to college he decided to see the world as both his parents had passed away. Ever since this he has “been seeing the world” through the eyes of a newspaper man, serving in the capacity of both reporter … Read more

Biography of Charles N. Kirkbride

Charles N. Kirkbride, the City Attorney of San Mateo, came to the town in 1889 and started the San Mateo Leader, taking in R. H. Jury as an associate. He subsequently became editor of the Times-Gazette and moved to Redwood City, but in 1891 resumed the study of law, begun at the College of the Pacific in San Jose, under Justice John E. Richards, now of the Appellate Court. Mr. Kirkbride entered Northwestern University College of Law at Chicago, Ill., and had lectures under such eminent men as Justices Harlan and Brewer of the United States Supreme Court; Henry Wade … Read more

Biography of Edwin Carlos Lane

Edwin Carlos Lane, editor of one of the leading county-seat newspapers of Iowa, was born August 11, 1855, on the home farm of his maternal grandfather situated midway between Plano and Bristol Station near the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, in Little Rock township, Kendall county, Illinois. He was one of a family of three sons and one daughter whose parents were Levi Hart and Emily Jane (Kendrick) Lane. The father was born in Lewis county, New York, in 1830, and was a son of Lyman Lane, a native of Suffield, Connecticut, who was born in … Read more

History of Baker County Oregon Newspapers

On Wednesday, May 11, 1870, the first number of the Bedrock Democrat was issued-the first newspaper published in Baker County Abbott & McArthur, proprietors. The editor in his address to the public promises devotion to the interests of the people of Eastern Oregon in all things pertaining to the material interests of the people, and fidelity to the Democratic Party in political matters. In the editorial columns the public debt and other political questions of the time are discussed. In the local columns the different mining camps of the county all receive a notice. The miners at Auburn were jubilant … Read more

History of Pulaski County, Georgia Newspapers

The first newspaper published in Hawkinsville was the Pulaski Times, the first edition of which appeared September 9, 1858, with Gen. O. C. Horne and P. E. D. Scarborough as editors and proprietors. This issue gave, in an interesting way, the news of the day, and solicited subscribers, and urged the people to lend their support to this new enterprise. On September 1, 1859, General Horne sold his interest to Col. C. C. Kibbee, and it was then under the management of Scarborough and Kibbee. The issue of this date includes an editorial by Colonel Kibbee in which he states … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Edwin John Leavenworth

Leavenworth, Edwin John; lithographer and stationer; born, St. Catherines, Canada, March 27, 1859; son of E. S. and Cindrella Leavenworth; educated, St. Catherines High School and Collegiate Institute; married, Solon, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1881, Elizabeth M. Harper; issue, Fred H., Edwin H., Ethel M., and Grace E., at the age of 20, engaged in the printing and publishing business; was editor and publisher of the St. Catherines Daily and Weekly News; issued Sundayschool papers, church weeklies, and Government periodicals, and conducted a book and stationery store; came to Cleveland in 1888, forming business partnership with Short & Forman, now The … Read more

Biographical Sketch of S. Lewandowski

Lewandowski, S.; steamship, foreign exchange, etc.; born, Poland, Nov. 16, 1864; son of Joseph and Miss Koszucka Lewandowski; educated, public schools, Bay City, Michigan; married, Posen, Nebraska, Aug. 16, 1885, Anna Kahinowska; issue, three sons and five daughters; for over twenty-one years an employee of the United States Government in the Cleveland post office; handling all cash postage for second class and permit matter, under the title of supt. of second class matter; in 1901, opened, on Sowinski Ave., Cleveland, an office, doing a steamship, foreign exchange and real estate business; one of the organizers and founders of the first … Read more

The Newspapers Of The Revolution

“There are now 5,000 prisoners in town, many of them half naked. Congress deserts the poor wretches” – Published in Gaines “Mercury” a Tory Paper, 25 Nov. 1776 What we have been able to glean from the periodicals of the day about the state of the prisons in New York during the years 1776 and 1777 we will condense into one short chapter. We will also give an abstract taken from a note book written by General Jeremiah Johnson, who as a boy, lived near Wallabout Bay during the Revolution and who thus describes one of the first prison ships … Read more