FROM THE COLLECTION:
MERCURIUS AULICUS, Jan. 14, 1643
"... the funerall of the Lord Aubigny who was slaine fighting manfully for his King and Country at that famous battle of Edge-hill, were solemnized after the Military manner, with great pomp and state: that so his buriall appears no lesse magnificent then his nativitie had been honourable and his death glorious."
CONNECTICUT COURANT, Jan. 19, 1779
"Extract from the Trial of Major General [Charles] Lee: ... The court having considered the charges, finds that Major General Lee is guilty (of the three charges) ..."
INDEPENDENT GAZETEER, Jan. 17, 1784
submission to the Council of Censor of Pennsylvania from Gershom Mendes Seixas, Simon Nathan, Asher Myers, Barnard Gratz and Haym Salomon proposing the abolition of religious tests for office-holders: "... certainly the religious test deprives the Jews of the most eminent Rights of Freemen, solemnly ascertained to all men who are not professed Atheists ..."
THE HERALD: A GAZETTE FOR THE COUNTRY, Jan. 13, 1797
"CONGRESS: House of Representatives -- An application has been made to congress to pass a law to prevent the kidnapping and carrying away of negroes ... It contemplated to remedy the evil by obliging every vessel to have certificates with their negroes and mulattoes. Against the resolution it was agreed that the laws of the several states were competent to this subject ... Some of the gentlemen apprehended the resolution to be an entering wedge, preparatory to some plan of emancipation, which might be hostile to many of these states ..."
(Baltimore) AMERICAN AND DAILY ADVERTISER, Jan. 16, 1800
"Gen. Washington has willed all his own Negroes free ... They are to enjoy their freedom on the death of their Mistress."
(Hudson, NY) BALANCE & COLUMBIAN REPOSITORY, Jan. 18, 1803
"Last week on Monday, at a court of sessions in this county, a democratic grand jury found two indictments against H[arry]. Croswell, the junior editor of this paper, for publishing libels against Thomas Jefferson ..."
NEW YORK EVENING POST, Jan. 14, 1818
"Yesterday came on for trial ... an indictment against Mordecai Moses Noah, the editor of the National Advocate, for a misdemeanor in intercepting and breaking open a private letter and publishing its contents ... The jury withdrew and returned in twenty minutes with a verdict of guilty ... P.S. We give the report from hearsay."
NEW-YORK MIRROR, Jan. 14, 1826
"`A Subscriber' is informed that we never read the New York Evening Post. Since Mr. Coleman has become so superanuated, his opinion on most subjects is of no more consequence to us than that of any other old woman ..."
NEW-YORK MIRROR, Jan. 17, 1829
"A Nashville paper of the twenty-third of December conveys the tidings of the death of Mrs. RACHEL JACKSON, wife of the president elect ..."
GENEVA (NY) GAZETTE, Jan. 19, 1831
"The Evening Post, one of the best conducted and most efficient republican papers in the city of New-York, is much enlarged in size and improved in appearance, and its editorial department has received a valuable accession of talent ..."
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Jan. 13, 1833
"CAPT. PHILIP FRENEAU, a gallant revolutionary soldier and patriotic poet, died at Freehold, New Jersey on the 18th Dec. last, aged about 80 years ..."
POUGHKEEPSIE TELEGRAPH, Jan 13, 1836
"Three hundred and fifty Mexicans attacked the Texians near San Antonio ... Later intelligence States that the Texians had gained possession of the town ..."
BROTHER JONATHAN, Jan. 15, 1842
"Capital Punishment: ... Let the people petition, and show the gentlemen in Albany how overwhelmingly public opinion goes in favor of the removal of this remnant of tyranny and barbarism."
St. Paul, MN WEEKLY PIONEER & DEMOCRAT, Jan. 17, 1862
"CHANGE IN THE CABINET/Mr. Cameron Goes to Russia /Stanton Secretary of War"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Jan. 16, 1863
"Jeff. Davis's Annual Message/He Will Accept Peace Only With Independence/He Insists Upon Killing Butler/He Threatens The Extermination of the Slaves: ... In relation to the Emancipation Proclamation, he says he may well leave it to the instincts of common humanity ... to judge a measure by which several millions of human beings of an inferior race, peaceful and contented laborers in their sphere, are doomed to extermination ..."
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 14, 1865
editorial: "... The right to strike down slavery with the Constitution comes from the demonstrated fact that slavery cannot live in harmony with the Constitution ... Abraham Lincoln never uttered a sager word than when he declared years ago, in his great canvass with Douglas, that this Union must finally be made up of States all slave, or all free ..."
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 17, 1865
"THE ESCAPED CORRESPONDENTS/Safe Arrival at Nashville of Messrs. Albert Richardson and Junius Brown of the Tribune, Accompanied by Mr. Wm. E. Davis, of the Cincinnati Gazette [escaped from Confederate prison in Salisbury, NC]"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Jan. 17, 1868
editorial: "THE SITUATION: The next card may be Impeachment. Mr. Johnson might as well understand this before he forces upon Congress this necessity. We trust wisdom will prevail. But if the President makes himself an `impediment,' he must be swept away. This is the Logic of the Hour ..."
THE SHARP-SHOOTER & ANTI-FOGY, Jan. 17, 1868
[Published by the First Progressive Christian Church of Philadelphia. From Old Fogies, Sectarians, Politicians, Drug-Medication, Grease, Rum and Tobacco, Good Lord Deliver Us]
"Codfish parents become insulted if you remind them that their sons, especially, are being ruined by the vile habit of `self-abuse' ..."
THE BANNER OF LIBERTY, Jan. 18, 1870
"The French Capital has been the scene of the most intense excitement during the past few days, which, according to some accounts, threatens the overthrow of the Napoleon dynasty ..."
POMEROY'S DEMOCRAT, Jan. 18. 1871
"The Military N----r: The negro cadet at West Point [James Webster Smith] is again scandalizing his white partisans and supporters by making it necessary to have another court-martial to investigate charges against him ... In the name of heaven, where is this negro farce to end? ..."
ELMIRA DAILY ADVERTISER, Jan. 18, 1893
"RUTHERFORD B. HAYES/The Soldier, Statesman and Ex-President Passes Away"
NEWSPAPERDOM, Jan. 1895
"The new idea which has struck newspaperdom, in connection with which society ladies, schoolboys, etc., are invited to take entire charge of a newspaper for one issue, whatever may be its advantages as an advertisement, is certainly not contributing to the dignity of the press ..."
MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE, Jan. 1896
"Wanted -- A National Air: Almost every nation except our own has a characteristic air that is recognized everywhere, at home and abroad, as a sort of national trademark or password -- a cut for the entrance of patriotism. ... `The Star Spangled Banner' is a stirring and robust song, but its range is too great for ordinary voices. ..." (be sure not to miss the link on this one)
CHICAGO SATURDAY BLADE, Jan. 14, 1905
"MAN WHO'S GOING TO WHIP JEFFRIES (If He Can)/ Gets `Gabby' About Plans for Fight/Frank Gotch, Champion Wrestler, Thinks He Has a Chance to Whip Jeffries and Is Willing to Try for the Honors -- Will Take on Johnson First"
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN, Jan. 17, 1906
"MARSHALL FIELD IS DEAD; FUNERAL IN CHICAGO FRIDAY/Pneumonia Ends Notable Career of Merchant After Illness of Eight Days in New York"
BOSTON AMERICAN, Jan. 14, 1912
"VICTORY! THE GRAND TRUNK COMES TO BOSTON!/Official Petition to Legislature Filed on Behalf of Great Railroad/Boston to Have Direct Line to Montreal, West and Orient by the Grand Trunk/Greatest Commercial Development Campaign Ever Conducted by a New England Paper"
LOS ANGELES DAILY TRIBUNE, Jan. 14, 1913
"Characters Heard to Talk and Sing in `Movies'/ Sound Produced Synchronously by Kinetophone/ Every Syllable Clear/Sounds of Dishes Breaking, Dogs Barking and Musical Instruments True as Life: ... It was a moment of triumph for Thomas A. Edison ..."
MARIETTA REGISTER-LEADER, Jan. 17, 1917
"MANILA BAY HERO DEAD AT AGE 79/Admiral George Dewey of U.S. Navy is Summoned"
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Jan. 17, 1919
"LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBERG SLAIN BY WILD MOBS IN BERLIN/ Leaders of Spartacus Group Fall Victims to Passions They Aroused in German People; Woman's Murder Especially Brutal"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Jan. 14, 1920
"N.Y. [State] House Again Refuses Seats to 5 Socialists/Party to Contest Act; [Charles Evans] Hughes Will Be Counsel"
THE (Sing Sing Prison) SUMMARY, Jan. 15, 1921
"The letter-clerk's office has been enriched by the acquisition of Cohen. Now with the Cohens and the -felds and the -thals and the -bergs, we will soon be able to start a Zionist movement of our own on the Guard Room Floor."
NEW YORK EVENING POST, Jan. 15, 1921
16th Annual Real Estate Review: "Areas That Will Be Benefited by the Vehicular [Holland] Tunnel Which Is Now Being Constructed Under the Hudson River"
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Jan. 19, 1923
"WALLY REID DOPE DEATH AROUSES U.S. TO PERIL/ Demand for Drive to Halt Evil/Wally Reid, Dope Victim, Mourned"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 13, 1928
"DEAD!/Ruth and Judd Die in Chair, Ask Forgiveness for Sin"
MERCURIUS AULICUS, Jan. 14, 1643
"... the funerall of the Lord Aubigny who was slaine fighting manfully for his King and Country at that famous battle of Edge-hill, were solemnized after the Military manner, with great pomp and state: that so his buriall appears no lesse magnificent then his nativitie had been honourable and his death glorious."
CONNECTICUT COURANT, Jan. 19, 1779
"Extract from the Trial of Major General [Charles] Lee: ... The court having considered the charges, finds that Major General Lee is guilty (of the three charges) ..."
INDEPENDENT GAZETEER, Jan. 17, 1784
submission to the Council of Censor of Pennsylvania from Gershom Mendes Seixas, Simon Nathan, Asher Myers, Barnard Gratz and Haym Salomon proposing the abolition of religious tests for office-holders: "... certainly the religious test deprives the Jews of the most eminent Rights of Freemen, solemnly ascertained to all men who are not professed Atheists ..."
THE HERALD: A GAZETTE FOR THE COUNTRY, Jan. 13, 1797
"CONGRESS: House of Representatives -- An application has been made to congress to pass a law to prevent the kidnapping and carrying away of negroes ... It contemplated to remedy the evil by obliging every vessel to have certificates with their negroes and mulattoes. Against the resolution it was agreed that the laws of the several states were competent to this subject ... Some of the gentlemen apprehended the resolution to be an entering wedge, preparatory to some plan of emancipation, which might be hostile to many of these states ..."
(Baltimore) AMERICAN AND DAILY ADVERTISER, Jan. 16, 1800
"Gen. Washington has willed all his own Negroes free ... They are to enjoy their freedom on the death of their Mistress."
(Hudson, NY) BALANCE & COLUMBIAN REPOSITORY, Jan. 18, 1803
"Last week on Monday, at a court of sessions in this county, a democratic grand jury found two indictments against H[arry]. Croswell, the junior editor of this paper, for publishing libels against Thomas Jefferson ..."
NEW YORK EVENING POST, Jan. 14, 1818
"Yesterday came on for trial ... an indictment against Mordecai Moses Noah, the editor of the National Advocate, for a misdemeanor in intercepting and breaking open a private letter and publishing its contents ... The jury withdrew and returned in twenty minutes with a verdict of guilty ... P.S. We give the report from hearsay."
NEW-YORK MIRROR, Jan. 14, 1826
"`A Subscriber' is informed that we never read the New York Evening Post. Since Mr. Coleman has become so superanuated, his opinion on most subjects is of no more consequence to us than that of any other old woman ..."
NEW-YORK MIRROR, Jan. 17, 1829
"A Nashville paper of the twenty-third of December conveys the tidings of the death of Mrs. RACHEL JACKSON, wife of the president elect ..."
GENEVA (NY) GAZETTE, Jan. 19, 1831
"The Evening Post, one of the best conducted and most efficient republican papers in the city of New-York, is much enlarged in size and improved in appearance, and its editorial department has received a valuable accession of talent ..."
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Jan. 13, 1833
"CAPT. PHILIP FRENEAU, a gallant revolutionary soldier and patriotic poet, died at Freehold, New Jersey on the 18th Dec. last, aged about 80 years ..."
POUGHKEEPSIE TELEGRAPH, Jan 13, 1836
"Three hundred and fifty Mexicans attacked the Texians near San Antonio ... Later intelligence States that the Texians had gained possession of the town ..."
BROTHER JONATHAN, Jan. 15, 1842
"Capital Punishment: ... Let the people petition, and show the gentlemen in Albany how overwhelmingly public opinion goes in favor of the removal of this remnant of tyranny and barbarism."
St. Paul, MN WEEKLY PIONEER & DEMOCRAT, Jan. 17, 1862
"CHANGE IN THE CABINET/Mr. Cameron Goes to Russia /Stanton Secretary of War"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Jan. 16, 1863
"Jeff. Davis's Annual Message/He Will Accept Peace Only With Independence/He Insists Upon Killing Butler/He Threatens The Extermination of the Slaves: ... In relation to the Emancipation Proclamation, he says he may well leave it to the instincts of common humanity ... to judge a measure by which several millions of human beings of an inferior race, peaceful and contented laborers in their sphere, are doomed to extermination ..."
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 14, 1865
editorial: "... The right to strike down slavery with the Constitution comes from the demonstrated fact that slavery cannot live in harmony with the Constitution ... Abraham Lincoln never uttered a sager word than when he declared years ago, in his great canvass with Douglas, that this Union must finally be made up of States all slave, or all free ..."
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 17, 1865
"THE ESCAPED CORRESPONDENTS/Safe Arrival at Nashville of Messrs. Albert Richardson and Junius Brown of the Tribune, Accompanied by Mr. Wm. E. Davis, of the Cincinnati Gazette [escaped from Confederate prison in Salisbury, NC]"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Jan. 17, 1868
editorial: "THE SITUATION: The next card may be Impeachment. Mr. Johnson might as well understand this before he forces upon Congress this necessity. We trust wisdom will prevail. But if the President makes himself an `impediment,' he must be swept away. This is the Logic of the Hour ..."
THE SHARP-SHOOTER & ANTI-FOGY, Jan. 17, 1868
[Published by the First Progressive Christian Church of Philadelphia. From Old Fogies, Sectarians, Politicians, Drug-Medication, Grease, Rum and Tobacco, Good Lord Deliver Us]
"Codfish parents become insulted if you remind them that their sons, especially, are being ruined by the vile habit of `self-abuse' ..."
THE BANNER OF LIBERTY, Jan. 18, 1870
"The French Capital has been the scene of the most intense excitement during the past few days, which, according to some accounts, threatens the overthrow of the Napoleon dynasty ..."
POMEROY'S DEMOCRAT, Jan. 18. 1871
"The Military N----r: The negro cadet at West Point [James Webster Smith] is again scandalizing his white partisans and supporters by making it necessary to have another court-martial to investigate charges against him ... In the name of heaven, where is this negro farce to end? ..."
ELMIRA DAILY ADVERTISER, Jan. 18, 1893
"RUTHERFORD B. HAYES/The Soldier, Statesman and Ex-President Passes Away"
NEWSPAPERDOM, Jan. 1895
"The new idea which has struck newspaperdom, in connection with which society ladies, schoolboys, etc., are invited to take entire charge of a newspaper for one issue, whatever may be its advantages as an advertisement, is certainly not contributing to the dignity of the press ..."
MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE, Jan. 1896
"Wanted -- A National Air: Almost every nation except our own has a characteristic air that is recognized everywhere, at home and abroad, as a sort of national trademark or password -- a cut for the entrance of patriotism. ... `The Star Spangled Banner' is a stirring and robust song, but its range is too great for ordinary voices. ..." (be sure not to miss the link on this one)
CHICAGO SATURDAY BLADE, Jan. 14, 1905
"MAN WHO'S GOING TO WHIP JEFFRIES (If He Can)/ Gets `Gabby' About Plans for Fight/Frank Gotch, Champion Wrestler, Thinks He Has a Chance to Whip Jeffries and Is Willing to Try for the Honors -- Will Take on Johnson First"
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN, Jan. 17, 1906
"MARSHALL FIELD IS DEAD; FUNERAL IN CHICAGO FRIDAY/Pneumonia Ends Notable Career of Merchant After Illness of Eight Days in New York"
BOSTON AMERICAN, Jan. 14, 1912
"VICTORY! THE GRAND TRUNK COMES TO BOSTON!/Official Petition to Legislature Filed on Behalf of Great Railroad/Boston to Have Direct Line to Montreal, West and Orient by the Grand Trunk/Greatest Commercial Development Campaign Ever Conducted by a New England Paper"
LOS ANGELES DAILY TRIBUNE, Jan. 14, 1913
"Characters Heard to Talk and Sing in `Movies'/ Sound Produced Synchronously by Kinetophone/ Every Syllable Clear/Sounds of Dishes Breaking, Dogs Barking and Musical Instruments True as Life: ... It was a moment of triumph for Thomas A. Edison ..."
MARIETTA REGISTER-LEADER, Jan. 17, 1917
"MANILA BAY HERO DEAD AT AGE 79/Admiral George Dewey of U.S. Navy is Summoned"
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Jan. 17, 1919
"LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBERG SLAIN BY WILD MOBS IN BERLIN/ Leaders of Spartacus Group Fall Victims to Passions They Aroused in German People; Woman's Murder Especially Brutal"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Jan. 14, 1920
"N.Y. [State] House Again Refuses Seats to 5 Socialists/Party to Contest Act; [Charles Evans] Hughes Will Be Counsel"
THE (Sing Sing Prison) SUMMARY, Jan. 15, 1921
"The letter-clerk's office has been enriched by the acquisition of Cohen. Now with the Cohens and the -felds and the -thals and the -bergs, we will soon be able to start a Zionist movement of our own on the Guard Room Floor."
NEW YORK EVENING POST, Jan. 15, 1921
16th Annual Real Estate Review: "Areas That Will Be Benefited by the Vehicular [Holland] Tunnel Which Is Now Being Constructed Under the Hudson River"
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Jan. 19, 1923
"WALLY REID DOPE DEATH AROUSES U.S. TO PERIL/ Demand for Drive to Halt Evil/Wally Reid, Dope Victim, Mourned"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 13, 1928
"DEAD!/Ruth and Judd Die in Chair, Ask Forgiveness for Sin"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 14, 1928
P1 photo: "The only unofficial photo ever taken within the death chamber, this most remarkable, exclusive picture shows closeup of Ruth Snyder in death chair at Sing Sing as lethal current surged through her body at 11:06 Thursday night. Its first publication in yesterday's EXTRA edition of THE NEWS was the most talked-of feat in the history of journalism. Ruth's body is seen straightened within its confining gloves, her helmeted head, face masked, hands clutching, an electrode strapped her right leg with stocking down. Autopsy table on which body was removed is beside chair."
NEWS-WEEK, Jan. 14, 1933
Vol. I Dummy: "NOTICE: This is a pre-publication dummy of NEWS-WEEK. Details of makeup are subject to change later. Its purpose is to present, insofar as possible at present, an impression of the magazine -- its cover, its typography, its editorial style, its plan in regard to illustrations, its departments. ... Volume 1 Number 1 will be published February 17, 1933."
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 17, 1935
"BREAK AT SAN QUENTIN RESULTS IN RECAPTURE, DYING; 2 BREMER KIDNAPPERS SLAIN/Fred Barker, `Ma' Die/Shoot to the Last When Trapped By Federal Agents/Machine Gun in Her Hand/Weapons Blaze for Six Hours in Oklawaha as Prostrate Villagers Look On/Members of Karpis Gang"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 19, 1940
"Brazen improprieties with an illustrious roster of gentlemen ... yesterday were charged against Marion Talley, long-troubled star of grand opera. The accusations, some of which made our delicate copyreaders blush beneath their green eyeshades ..."
DETROIT TIMES, Jan. 17, 1942
"CAROLE LOMBARD DIES WITH 21 ON AIRLINER/15 Army Men, Detroiter Killed"
HONEOYE FALLS TIMES, Jan. 15, 1953
"109,032 Killed As A-Bomb Hits Kodak Park Area; Aid Promised/Bomb Dropped As Workers Start On Afternoon Shift/Attack Injures Thousands;
66,000 Homeless, Families Lost in City-Wide Havoc"
[This is a "Civil Defense Test" Edition]
NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN, Jan. 16, 1957
"Toscanini Dies in Sleep at 89/Stroke Fatal to Maestro In Riverdale/Stricken Jan. 1, He Wasn't Aware Death Was Near"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 18, 1961
"IKE'S GOOD-BYE A BLOC BUSTER/Warns of Military-Industrial Rule"
SYRACUSE HERALD-JOURNAL, Jan. 15, 1964
"Churchill Has Stroke"
NEW YORK POST, Jan. 16, 1967
"The Super Bowl: VINCE [Lombardi] ON THE CHIEFS: `THEY DON'T COMPARE'"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 13, 1969
"SUPERDUPER!/B'way Joe Jolts Colts By 16-7"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Jan. 14, 1978
"[HUBERT] HUMPHREY DIES AT 66/Senator Loses His Battle Against Cancer"
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 17, 1991
"U.S. AND ALLIES OPEN WAR ON IRAQ, BOMB BAGHDAD AND KUWAITI TARGETS; `NO CHOICE' BUT FORCE, BUSH DECLARES/No Ground Fighting Yet, ` President Tells the Nation/A TENSE WAIT ENDS/News of Attack Sweeps the Country, Stirring Profound Feelings"
NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 15, 1999
"Senators Hear First Plea by House to Remove Clinton/President Cited for `Egregious and Criminal Conduct'/Senate Sniping Over Witness Issue Endangers a Frail Bipartisan Pact"
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