From Randy over at Genea-Musings:
it's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What were the newspaper headlines the day one of your grandparents or great-grandparents were born?
2) Use any newspaper provider (Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) is FREE) to find the headlines.
3) Tell us who your subject was, when and where they were born, and tell us three or four headlines on the front page of the newspaper for that date.
4) Share your finds on your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on your Facebook page. Please provide a link to your work as a comment to this post.
2) Use any newspaper provider (Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) is FREE) to find the headlines.
3) Tell us who your subject was, when and where they were born, and tell us three or four headlines on the front page of the newspaper for that date.
4) Share your finds on your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or on your Facebook page. Please provide a link to your work as a comment to this post.
Here's mine:
My great-grandmother, Bessie Alice Carter, was born February 9, 1883 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Since I don't have a subscription to a newspaper archive, I used Randy's suggestion and searched Chronicling America. I could not locate a Milwaukee newspaper from that day, but I did find the front page of the "Iowa County Democrat" out of Mineral Point, Wisconsin for that date.
Mineral Point is located about 2 hours almost due east (and slightly south) of Milwaukee. It is also about 3 and a half hours from Eagle Grove, Iowa, which is where Bessie grew up.
There do not seem to be many headlines. It's mostly little snippets of information all jumbled together on one page.
Here are the few:
- Telegraphic. News by Wire Reduced to Close Quarters for Convenient Reference and Easy Reading.
- Crime
- Foreign
- Fires and Casualties
- Washington
- General Notes
- Milwaukee Market
- Chicago Market
- This takes the Belt
- The Legislature
- Tariff Meddlers. Democrats Charged with Obstructing Legislation by the Republicans.
- The River and Harbor Bill Modestly Calls for $6,000,000 This Time
Sounds like mostly the same kinds of news as we see today...especially about politics. It also seems this little town had very little going on cause all the news is from around the country and the world.
I think the reason the small-town papers were full of national news is they already knew the local stuff, but were hungry for what was happening elsewhere. The papers were the only way to learn that pre-radio, tv, and internet.
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