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August 14, 2020

Poems and Essays from the American newspaper archive

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Welcome to the home of the Newspaper History podcast.

Here you can also find quips (short observations and jokes, much like pre-internet, pre-television, pre-radio tweets), and a variety of images from American newspapers 108 years ago.

This website was created by Michael Scherer, an audiobook narrator and lover of history, poetry, and old newspaper writing. He lives in the Washington, DC area.

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A. J. Waterhouse A Poem That Has Helped Berton Braley Bisbee Daily Review Carson City Daily Appeal Dorothy Dix Duncan M. Smith Edgar A. Guest Evening Public Ledger Evening Star Free Trader-Journal George Fitch Harrisburg Telegraph Humor and Philosophy James J. Montague John D. Barry More Truth Than Poetry New York Tribune Nothing Serious Occidental Accidentals Omaha Daily Bee On the Spur of the Moment Perth Amboy Evening News Rock Island Argus Roy K. Moulton Shooting Stars South Bend News Times The Bismarck Tribune The Daily Short Story The Evening World The News Scimitar The Pensacola Journal The San Francisco Call The Seattle Star The Sun The Tacoma Times The Talk of the Day The Tomahawk The Topeka State Journal The Washburn Leader The Washington Herald The Washington Times Uncle Walt Says Today Walt Mason Wilbur D. Nesbitt

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Newspaper History

Poems and Essays from the American newspaper archive

National Digital Newspaper Program

The historic newspapers narrated here are from the National Digital Newspaper Program. This program provides an online archive of historic American newspapers called Chronicling America. It is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Rights and Reproductions

“The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety. ”

-from About Chronicling America

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To learn more about me, visit my personal website, Michael Scherer Voice.

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