This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
7
Dramatic exchange traces Twitchell who shot a first baseman and is examined for motives. The doctor links childhood experiences and baseball lore to the urge, notes possible defense implications, and hints at potential clearance. Also mentions Milton Berle divorce and faint social quips from the era.
The article lauds Ben Grauer as the outstanding special events reporter on radio and television. It notes his rise from announcer to NBC correspondent and cites coverage from presidential inaugurations to UN sessions. It also mentions his emcee appeal and vast knowledge across politics sports science and literature.
Inspector Beatty solves a Beverly Hills jewel theft valued at 50 000 by tracing mud on a secretary's shoes to a false ladder setup. He disproves the alibi with a hidden break in a study window while confirming the secretary’s friend confessed to a staged scene.
A dense list of crossword clues across and down covering a wide range of topics from praise and animals to buildings and honors. The puzzle includes Tibetan antelopes and various musical notes, with entries like leather flask, explosion, and Rives, plus cultural terms and botanical items.
The essay traces tobacco from Virginia origins through postwar growth to a global cigarette economy. It notes U.S. production in 1948 of about 387 billion cigarettes, tax impact near two billion dollars, and tobacco’s reach across states and into Europe and Asia, ending with tobacco farmers tied to the Marshall Plan.
Entomologists under Colorado agricultural research sponsorship report 100 percent kill of mound building ants using 3 percent chlordane sprayed at nests. Application at nest entrances with soil nozzle work best. ten nests per acre can severely reduce vegetation.
The European corn borer reduced the 1948 field corn crop by 85 million bushels. The loss, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., is more than double the 1947 figure per surveys by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and cooperating agencies.
University of Illinois engineer M. W. Forth urges builders to plan for a mechanical barn cleaner in new or remodeled barns. He says provisioning now saves effort and cost even if plans do not require one immediately.
Questions and answers cover West Point Welshman ship sources battle ship homes Primo Carnera and polo. The quiz lists five prompts with brief solutions: United States Military Academy location, native of Wales, home sources for battleships, largest heavyweight champion, and chukker usage in polo.
An aged minister reflects on a baptized boy's untimely death and notes the contrast between a successful industrious man and his shiftless friend. The informant confirms the friend earned money and left a widow, prompting a moral about hard work. The twist ends with the friend marrying the hard worker's widow.
Uncle Pete claims a six year four dollar a week job let him buy a grocery store. Julius counters that modern cash registers are hard to beat, contrasting old fashioned ambition with new technology.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.