Last month when Dan was cleaning out one of the loft areas in the barn he came upon this newspaper remnant. It helped him date when the items in the barn were placed there and not touched since: 1906
The paper is in very bad shape. We're not sure what was spattered all over it. I've saved what I could and bagged it up as house history.
The paper comes from New York City.
You can see above how much the paper cost - 3 cents and Sundays 5 cents - and it looks like it was available all over the place. Below shows the date August 26, 1906, a Sunday.
I tried to photograph some of the articles.
The major event covered was a bomb in Russia.
Teddy Roosevelt was President in 1906 and it was the year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The canal mentioned above must be the Panama Canal.
What a picture into the past. For me the funniest article was about the woman attempting to wallpaper a room with canceled stamps.
...quite a treasure hunt.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting for you.
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm so glad you have a historian's respect for this remnant from the past. Of course that paper may be saved on some microfiche somewhere...but to know someone left it in your own barn, perhaps days, weeks, maybe years after that date...it really is interesting. Glad you've decided to save it!
ReplyDeleteOld newspapers are fascinating in the way they wrote the articles and how much detail they gave.
ReplyDeleteYou're making quite a selection of historical artefacts from your new property.
ReplyDeleteI’m intrigued by the news article of the lady who was papering her wall with postage stamps!
ReplyDeleteWhen we built our home in North Carolina we took down an old cabin to reuse the logs in a new house. The whole interior was papered with newspaper from the 1940s. We enjoyed reading some of it, too. Nice you thought to preserve it with photos. We didn’t!