Search
The Rare & Early Newspapers Hobby
Receive the Newsletter
Buy Historic Newspapers
The Traveler… election time… one horse tail…
November 4, 2010 by The Traveler · Leave a Comment 
Email This Post
| 
Print This Post
Our elections have been over for a couple of days, however I found that not the case 100 years ago. In the November 4, 1910 issue of “The Call” from San Francisco, the governor race was heated with the report of a rally of 7,000 people. “Johnson Hurls Lie Direct in Teeth of Detractors and Lays Bare True Meaning of Battle” is one of the sub-headlines. It seems that politics has not changed…
But the deceit and lies does not stop in the political arena. A man traded a mule under the guise of a “shaved tail” horse. Afterward he began to laugh about it, to the point he could not stop laughing. This continued for hours to which a physician was called in. Finally after 12 hours of laughing, they resorted to electric shock therapy which did stop the laughter. This may truly be a case of who really got the last laugh in this deal!! ~The Traveler
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- The reason I collected it: The Battery, 1848…
- The Traveler… ah, this bloody weather…
- How to be a cowboy: The protocol in 1882…
- Two hours before disaster… Food for thought!
- The Traveler… Tolstoy and Johnstone… smile please!
April 15, 1865 New York Herald reprints… revisited…
November 1, 2010 by GuyHeilenman · 10 Comments Email This Post
| Print This Post
A previous post by guest contributor Rick Brown detailed how one can identify whether or not their April 15, 1865 New York Herald is authentic. One of the most notable differences between an authentic issue (which is quite rare) and one of the reprints (which are rather common) is that the common reprint has an image of President Lincoln on the front page, whereas, the original does not. We recently came across a photo of the Lincoln image (as shown to the right). If your issue has it… unfortunately, your’s is not an original.
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- April 15, 1865 New York Herald Reprints
- Lincoln Assassination Newspapers Atlas…
- “Collecting Newspapers – The Basics” (Part V) – Reprints…
- Reprinted Newspapers – Identified as of 1931…
- Your help would be appreciated…
A ghost robs a bank…
October 30, 2010 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
And just in time for Halloween, a report from “The Observer” of London, January 1, 1797:
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- A ghost robs a bank (revisited)…
- Long live the dead… a zombie love affair?
- “Believe It Or Not” – 1866 edition…
- True? Muhammad’s pledge of protection for Christians…
- An Alternative to Capital Punishment Explored in the 1700’s…
The unearthing of a President… yet another discovery!
October 28, 2010 by GuyHeilenman · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
The image shows a portion of a full-page ad found buried in the back of the January 4, 1902 edition of Harper’s Weekly Illustrated. One of the joys of collecting rare and early newspapers is the fun collectors have digging up hidden treasures. A student at Arizona State University recently noticed that one of the contributors listed in an ad for encyclopedias was Woodrow Wilson, more than 10 years before he would be elected as the 28th President of the United States. In case one did not already know, this ad also reveals that he was a Professor at Politics at Princeton. I wonder if any other noteworthy individuals are named within this ad??? Additional close-up images can be found at: Additional Images. Feel free to add your finds.
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- The Traveler… the President takes office, again…
- Snapshot 1918… President Wilson becomes the first U.S. President to…
- President George Washington: “Et tu, John Adams?”…
- The Traveler… suffrage is defeated… groom and bride-to-be divided…
- The Traveler… announcing the new President…
Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1987…
October 25, 2010 by GuyHeilenman · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
Blondie, Kool & the Gang, Ambrosia… Rubik’s Cube, Break Dancing, Transformers… The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Moonlighting… the 80’s! Our walk through time now brings us to the 8o’s. Our exploration of authentic newspaper pricing through time takes us back to Catalog 60. To see a larger image of the catalog’s page, go here: Catalog 60
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1999…
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1993…
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 2006…
- You’ve Come A Long Way Baby. . . from the Pony Express to the internet…
- Announcing: Catalog 365 – Released (early) for April, 2026 – Rare & Early Newspapers…
Old age is relative…
October 23, 2010 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
Enjoy the following, which appeared in an 1857 newspaper:
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- Snapshot 1934… Bonnie & Clyde – their destiny foretold…
- Here’s to good health…
- For sale: an army, and more…
- Eighteenth century featured newspaper…
- It’s all relative…
The Traveler… coffins… do they really have an expiration?
October 21, 2010 by The Traveler · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
Take me out to the ballgame… It’s the reporting for Game Three of the World Series between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs in the October 21, 1910 issue of The Allentown Morning Call in which it is reported, “The Combat to-day was a slaughter with the final score Philadelphia 12 – Cubs 5″. Just a Wikipedia tidbit of information — in 
Game 2, all nine Philadelphia players in the line-up got a hit, the first time in World Series history.
The reporting of Dr. Crippen’s murder trial is also on the front page as well. This was the first murderer caught via wireless communications.
An unrelated article caught my eye as I was quickly scanning through inside pages… “Three Years For Coffin”. It ends up being about a man with the last name of Coffin who was being sent to Leavenworth on counterfeiting charges. At a quick glance, it makes one wonder if there were was an expiration date on “coffins”. I thought they were to last an eternity. 🙂
~The Traveler
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- The Traveler… Braves vs. Athletics creates new record…
- Taking a stand… often at a cost…
- World Series bound… Before the “Curse of the Bambino”… The Traveler…
- The Traveler… in the line-up…
- They Put It In Print (1941)… World Series – Cardinals vs. Yankees…
Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1993…
October 18, 2010 by GuyHeilenman · 2 Comments Email This Post
| Print This Post
Forest Gump, Jerry Maguire, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana… the 90’s. Our price-searching through time continues… all the way to “back in the day”… when everything was “aiight. Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at sample prices from 2006 and 2009. Today we explore a half-dozen years earlier – 1993. To see a larger image of the catalog’s page, go here: Catalog 90
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1999…
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 1987…
- Prices… a walk down memory lane… 2006…
- Stepping back: old catalogs show amazing prices…
- Rare newspaper prices from 60 years ago…
Roosevelt to blame for the Pearl Harbor attack…
October 16, 2010 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
We often list on our website issues from the island of Guernsey during World War II when it was occupied by the Nazis. As such all news is filtered through the German propaganda machine which offers interesting reading, as the reports are in English because the residents speak English.
Although many battles reports border on the absurd, particularly with historical hindsight, the front page report in the “Evening Press” dated December 8, 1941, one day after the Pearl Harbor attack, is one of the more outrageous (see the photo below).
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...
- The Last Surviving Veterans Who Served at Pearl Harbor…
- The reprint issues of the “Honolulu Star-Bulletin” Pearl Harbor issue… and the reprint set…
- Publishing Under Fire: The Nippon Fijii and the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor…
- The reason I collected it: the Nuremberg trials…
- Top ten battles of the Civil War… Just for fun…
Contest/drawing… humorous nuggets…
October 14, 2010 by GuyHeilenman · 1 Comment Email This Post
| Print This Post
Over the years, while searching for key content within our newspaper archives, we inevitably have found articles, images, headlines, anecdotes, etc. which are quite humorous. Many such snippets have appeared on the History’s Newsstand blog and may be viewed at: https://blog.rarenewspapers.com/?tag=humor
What about you? Have you found a little comic relief within your personal collection? If so, we would love for you to share your most humorous discovery (or discoveries) with the Rare Newspapers collecting community – and receive a reward for doing so. There are several ways to participate:
1) post the text of your newspaper anecdote, article, headline, etc. directly on the blog as a comment to this post.
2) post a scan/photo of your newspaper anecdote, article, headline, image, etc. directly on the blog as a comment to this post.
3) send the text or photo of your entry to guy@rarenewspapers.com, and we will post it for you.
You may submit as many entries as you wish, through Thursday, October 31st. Everyone who makes a submission will receive a coupon for 10% off a future website order at Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers. However, we will also have a random drawing for three winners whom will also receive $50 gift certificates for use at Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers. Why draw at random as opposed to selecting the most humorous? What one may find to be funny, another may not.
If you liked this post, you may also enjoy...