Newspaper History

Newspaper History episodes

October 16, 2018 Wife Wants to Be “Star”

by Dorothy Dix
From The Washington Herald, October 16, 1918
6 min
October 15, 2018 The Living Voice

by Lois Marian Terhune
From the Rock Island Argus, October 15, 1918

6 min
October 12, 2018 Power of Rawhide Rope

From the Free Trader-Journal, October 12, 1918
6 min
October 11, 2018 It Isn’t Overwork

From The Daily Banner, October 11, 1918
4 min
October 10, 2018 A Night Adventure

by Genevieve Ulmar
From the Rock Island Argus, October 10, 1918
6 min
October 09, 2018 A Farmerette by Proxy

by Mary L. Buzzell
From the Evening Public Ledger, October 9, 1918
6 min
October 08, 2018 Perverse Nature
by Walt Mason
From the Daily Capital Journal, October 8, 1918
2 min
October 07, 2018 Excitement of Being a Woman
by Dorothy Dix
From The Topeka State Journal, October 7, 1918
3 min
October 05, 2018 America’s Children
From the Free Trader-Journal, October 5, 1918.
3 min
October 04, 2018 Fatal Envelope
by Margaret D. Joyce
From The Owosso Times, October 4, 1918.
4 min

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Listen to American newspaper writing from 108 years ago. Poems, essays, and stories from the Library of Congress archive.