by Meg Dunn | Jul 30, 2018 | History in the News
This has been the summer of appliance troubles in our household. Our whole house fan went kaput (back when we were hitting over 90 degrees every day and really needed it!), our water heater decided we needed more cold showers, and now our fridge has decided that cold...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 29, 2015 | History in the News
While newspapers and magazines around the globe are compiling “2015: Year in Review” articles, I thought it might be fun to go back and take a look at what happened in Northern Colorado back in 1915, a hundred years ago. So here’s “1915: Year...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 22, 2015 | History in the News, NoCo Holidays
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. These ads are from newspapers in Fort Collins’ past. I’ve flipped through a couple of old newspapers, clipping out old Christmas ads from December 22, 1916 (Fort Collins Weekley Courier) and December 18, 1922...
by Meg Dunn | Nov 24, 2015 | Fort Collins, History in the News, NoCo Holidays
It’s always a blast looking back through old newspapers. Today I thought we’d jump back to November 18, 1908’s Fort Collins Weekly Courier. I’m going to focus on the ads because the world news was rather bleak, and the local news wasn’t...
by Meg Dunn | Feb 6, 2015 | Fort Collins, History in the News, People Groups
While researching the story of Charley Clay, an early black pioneer to the area, I came across a newspaper clipping that caught my attention. It’s a fascinating read on several levels. It speaks to Victorian mores. It includes some prominent early citizens such...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 26, 2014 | History in the News, NoCo Holidays
The newspapers in the late 1800s often had national and international news on the front page along with occasional poems, stories, and advertisements. But further into the paper there were columns containing random bits of information on local matters. What follows is...
by Meg Dunn | Aug 29, 2014 | Fort Collins, History in the News
The front page of the Fort Collins Courier on August 30, 1883, contained local ads, but the news was all imported from other states. That is, if you can call a story involving black men at a poker party speaking to each other with a strong southern dialect and using...
by Meg Dunn | Aug 22, 2014 | Fort Collins, History in the News
There was a fire at the A. J. Anderson Lumber Co. yard at 2104 S. College Ave that did somewhere between $25,000 and $60,000 in damage to a lumber shed. Racial tensions were high after four days of massive rioting in Los Angeles and a large demonstration in...
