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 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
8
Cincinnati Dr Raymond Walters president of the University of Cincinnati announced that over a million Americans are studying in colleges and universities in 1928 1939 total enrollment stood at 1 071 520 across 688 institutions excluding normal schools full time students numbered 705 989 with a rise 6 6 percent from 1924.
The 200-inch telescope lens for the California observatory is finished. Grinding will take three years to reach the proper shape. Once completed, over a million celestial bodies will be visible and the moon will seem just 25 miles away.
Federal agents guarded a $200000 shipment to the Lake Forest post office after a tip that public enemy No 1 Alvin Karpis knew of the plan. Six special police and a state's attorney's detail armed with machine guns rode the money on a train north of Chicago. inspectors kept the tip source secret and used it as evidence that underworld forces were alert.
The Comptroller General McCarl has released 1,068,244,963 of the 4,000,000,000 WPA jobs fund for expenditure by state officials with NY City receiving the largest allotment. Pennsylvania and Nevada also listed among top and bottom recipients as state administrators gain leeway in project selection.
Journal ads urge readers to spend gift money locally where prices are lowest, highlighting early shopper advantage and home shopping options.
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.