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Newspapers! Get Your Old Newspapers!
Happy New Year! We hope your holidays were bright and beautiful and the coming year brings you all the joy you require. This is our first post of the year and we will dig into more vintage newspapers and finding out who these characters of the past were. Also, we are happy to announce that…
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Old News Is Still News
Newspapers were and still are (although that is slowly fading away) used as a primary source of reading the news. People used to depend wholly on what was written in the newspaper and sometimes what was written and not written was due to the politics of that newspaper. Baseball Toledo, Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio), August…
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Old News: A Vintage Newspaper Extravaganza!
Folks, we gather here again to look at some old newspapers. As usual, please grab a good cup of tea and sit down with us on today’s journey. Robert Burns Cigars Advertisement, Buffalo Morning Express (Buffalo, New York), June 20, 1922 PSA: Cigars can be harmful to your health. That said, the general public was…
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Another Look at the Exciting and the Mundane of Vintage Newspapers
It’s officially summer! So, grab a tall glass of some icy sweet tea and take a short walk while we explore some history, according to newspapers. Get comfy, Here we go… Lipton Tea Advertisement, Deadwood Pioneer Times (Deadwood, South Dakota), March 27, 1937 Thomas Lipton (1848-1931), of Glasgow, Scotland, founded Lipton Tea in 1890, after…
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Lorena M. “Rena” Trickey- Horsewoman Extraordinaire
Sometimes when conducting research, you come across something or someone so interesting that you need to know more. Of course, that explodes into a huge rabbit hole. That was the case of the below article. A research project was under way when the article below came into view. We needed to know more about this…
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What Happened Years Ago?
Grab a cup of coffee (or tea, if that’s your thing) and take a trip into the past with us. Hotel Arlington., The Rocky Mountain Echo (Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada) April 9, 1906 With the great Rocky Mountains to the West and the flat, lonesome plains to the East, Pincher Creek, Alberta was officially incorporated…
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