Wellington Daily Leader Early 1909 Current Events Test
The Wellington Wellington County weekly notes its 1909 edition and prints a current events test from the Pulitzer School of Journalism. It lists essay prompts on government relation to newspapers and asks for opinions on NRA reorganization textile strikes and notable news events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orth County
Leader. Printing CO
Imp
Wellington
Texas
Henry Deskins Wells
Gillenting
Deskins Wells
Lucy
Treas
Tiran
Teat Enna
Pulitzer School of Journalism
Columbia University
Brain Trust
C. S
Oldest Newspapers Show Century-Long Stability Across the U.S.
A survey notes 108 weeklies and 84 dailies in the United States have lived 100 years or more. The Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, founded 1727, is the oldest. New Hampshire Gazette follows, Hartford Courant is the oldest daily, and a few papers reach beyond the Mississippi. New York leads with 42 century-old titles. Preservation loss of early files robs history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Maryland Gazette
Annapolis
New Hampshire Gazette
Portsruth
Hartford Courant
Pennsylvania
Ohio
War on Rats Prompts Widespread Community Action
The piece notes that rats cost the nation billions in food and damage and describes county efforts in Ohio using calcium cyanide gas to destroy about 50,000 rats in a month. Illinois class races rats by tails while farmers and clubs nationwide join in extermination to curb disease and property loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Ilinois
A Patriotic Creed and Quips From the Times
The American's Creed adopted by Congress in 1919 is described as a distilled pledge from the Preamble and Constitution. The piece notes author William Tyler Page and the creed's emphasis on government by the people and shared liberty. The rest of the items jest about fashion, trains, wedding guests, a society editor, alcohol industry helpers, and California primary intrigue with Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
America
Wm. Tyler Page
Tyler
United States
United States of America
First Texas newspapers and editors history timeline
The article chronicles early Texas printing and editors from Dr. Long bringing the first press to Texas to the 1934 note that Texas had more than 200 dailies and 600 weeklies. It lists dates and titles such as the Texas Gazette and Brazoria Advertiser Brazoria 1830 and the Morning Star Houston 1840 1844.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Dr. Long
Long
Nacogdoches
Grazoria
Telegraph
San Felipe
Harrisburg
Santa Anne
Houston Telegraph
Morning Star
Houston
Texas “Editorial and Press Association
The Last Supper Lessons In Paul’s Spiritual Meaning
The article interprets Paul’s account of the Last Supper as a symbolic rite linking remembrance of Christ to personal transformation. It cautions against treating the communion as mere appetite and stresses examination, sincerity, and unity within the church as core to the sacred meaning.
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Paul
Christ
Pauls
Paul Uvers
Ube
Church
Jots in Jests and Oddities From Diverse Places
A collection of quirky notes and oddities including a 55 foot high behemoth near Phoenix, massive gasoline consumption in 1933, France living costs, and unemployment claims. Reports cover highway signs in Tennessee, a Rockford freight theft, shrub transplant efforts, a Seattle mortician marriage in a morgue, a Winsdon burial, a five legged horse in Odessa, a misled marriage license request in St Louis, Melbourne divorce record pace, Hull power plant rat damage, and a Port Jervis hen laying many eggs with double yolks.
Hogs and deer incidents and college puzzle in Canyon news
The Canyon News reports hog killings as farmers note seasonal caution to prevent spoilage. A freshman at West Texas State Teachers College is given a Thanksgiving problem about a wall climb. A ten year old boy in Pampa is charged by a protective deer, his father intervening. Police in Chicago area track a tuxedo theft suspect. Local editorials and quotes from Various writers appear across Canyon, Hereford, Spearman, White Deer, Childress, Lubbock, and Floyd County.
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West Texas State Teachers College
Canyon
Charles ‘Neston
Pampa
Bury
Canadian
Charles Leroy Thomas
Min
Charles
Ralph Thomas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Society
California
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair
Jerusalem
Josiah
Judah
Manasseh
Jiiah
Jerael
Nebuchadneadhar
Babylon
Murrender
Israel
Matthew Merian
Pioneer
Land
Colorado
Kansas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Phoenix
Arizona
Chicago Motor Clu
Mare Ecilles
France
Tennessee Highway Commission
Rockford
Ill
O. H. Mittelstadt
Dorothy Thomas
Seattle
Olympia
Wash
Daniel Wilson
Winsdon
Ind
Undertaking
Ivan Szaltki
Odessa
Joseph Robeen
St. Louis
Justice McFarlen
Melbourne
Australia
L. C. Parry
London
Hull
Fing
B. W. Morgan
Port Jarvis
N.Y
Jong
Canyon News
Mr. Newton
Chester E. Clark
Childress I
Alex
Chicago
Childress
Charles A. Guy
Lubbock Journal
Girl On Broadway
Garman
Whitman
Canyon Prairie
Bill Miler
Spearman
W. W. Simmons
White Dewi Review
Jimmy Allred
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