Search
The Rare & Early Newspapers Hobby
Receive the Newsletter
Buy Historic Newspapers
-
Recent Posts
- Deciding which newspapers to offer – Bond Hall Explosion edition…
- Since History Often Repeats Itself, the Past Can be an Excellent Teacher…
- The July (2024) Newsletter from Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers…
- Don’t try this at home. . . or ANYWHERE for that matter!
- The Founding Documents – the Bill of Rights edition…
Most Viewed Post
Recent Comments
- The July (2024) Newsletter from Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers… : History's Newsstand Blog on Sometimes you just know what it means – The Spirit of ’76…
- PL KING on Why Hawaii Became the 50th State…
- Jim Wheeler on First newspaper in Connecticut…
- GuyHeilenman on Snapshot 1977… The Original (?) Star Wars…
- GuyHeilenman on First newspapers in Missouri…
Blogroll
Categories
Archives
Tags
18th Century 19th century 20th century 1700's 1800's 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination baseball black americana catalog Catalog announcements civil war collecting newspapers Confederate Food for Thought George Washington Great Headlines harper's weekly historic newspapers holidays humor humorous illustrated newspapers Inventions Jewish journalism Judaica just for fun literature London newsletter newspapers old newspapers old west politics President Lincoln Presidents rare newspapers religion Revolutionary War slavery sports war of 1812 www.rarenewspapers.com
Even then they wondered, “what’s next?”…
October 10, 2009 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
The “Mother Lode Magnet” newspaper from the small mining town of Jamestown in Northern California had an interesting item in its September 14, 1898 issue. One wouldn’t be surprised if it appeared in a newspaper today:
Filed under: Food for Thought, Post Civil War, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: Jamestown, Mother Lode Magnet, NC, North Carolina, old newspapers