For some examples:
The left column is all about upcoming elections and the violence attached to them--it seems that certain parts of the USA were quite passionate about politics back then.
A runaway horse trashed the carriage it was pulling.
And then there is gossip--
Mr Gard, the champion of the Bicycle Club, is a graceful and easy rider,and propels his machine in a manner that attracts universal appreciation. His splendidly proportioned form mounted upon the aerial seat just kills the ladies.
The attached article explains why this is the "Second Edition"--
The "Second Edition" was the first Buffalo Evening News ever published. The first edition never even made it to the press room. As shared in a 1980 edition celebrating The News' centennial: "The first edition of The Buffalo Evening News didn't sell a copy. In fact, it never made it to the press room. Due off the presses at 2 p.m. ... the first edition wound up on the floor – a tangled mess of handset type. "In his unpublished history of The News ... Charles H. Armitage, onetime political writer and city editor, described what happened on that first day: " 'Copy had been written and put in type and the type locked in the four little forms that were to convey the issue to a waiting public. And then, on the way to the press room, a decrepit elevator got out of control and the contents of those forms became a mass of pi.' (Pi is a printer's term for type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random.) "Mr. Armitage added, 'What comment was made on that occasion by Edward H. Butler, founder and until his death nearly 34 years later sole proprietor, is not on record.' "
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 12 2015, @05:59PM
So for 140 years, if you don't read it, you're not missing much.
(Score: 3, Funny) by davester666 on Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:38AM
News that retains it's value. Still worth 1 cent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @06:08PM
Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose...
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @06:31PM
Remove It.
That brick pile in front of Mr. White's
new building is a little too close to the
street-car track for comfort. Let the good
Doctor instruct the architect to mend mat-
ters. Architect Calkins does like to lum-
ber up and blockade the street better than
anything else in the world. He proved this
while building the Marine Bank.
Damn architect Calkins and his piles. What is it even with that guy and piles?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday October 12 2015, @07:25PM
How did people in Buffalo eat fish and chips in 1879?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday October 12 2015, @07:48PM
Umm, the same way as anybody else?
If you're wondering how Buffalo could get fresh fish in 1879, there are two ways that could happen:
A. Lake Erie has fish, and is right next door. Granted, that's freshwater fish, so if you wanted saltwater fish you had to go with option B.
B. The refrigerated rail car had been introduced about 4 years earlier, and trains averaged roughly 35 mph in upstate New York which meant that they could get goods from New York City to Buffalo in about 15 hours. So basically catch them on the coast, pack 'em in ice, ship 'em by rail, and you should be all set.
Neither potatoes nor people who knew how to make fish&chips would have been in short supply in Buffalo in 1879.
1879 was a very different country than, say, 1840, just like technology today is considerably different than technology in 1980.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @07:58PM
I think the joke was that fish and chips are customarily wrapped in a newspaper, and the first Buffalo News was in 1880.
t. joke explainer
(Score: 2) by Tramii on Monday October 12 2015, @08:05PM
Whoosh! Missed the joke there, didn't you?
(Fish-and-chip shops traditionally wrapped their product in newspaper.)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @09:32PM
That is a UK thing. In the US it was and still is little baskets.
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday October 12 2015, @07:46PM
and the contents of those forms became a mass of pi
Mmmm, massive pie.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @07:48PM
Was Buffalo's football team in contention for the league championship, but suffering from an inability to win the big games?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday October 12 2015, @08:11PM
So that's how you get a date: ride a bike while splendidly proportioned. I can't wait for the next porno for women: "Dudes on bikes! or how to Kill the ladies!"
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @01:05AM
Somebody was using the media to sell bikes. Pretty obvious by the way it was written.
People are quite vulnerable to subliminal advertising. Once you see how they do it, you will recognize it when you see it.
DeBeers did this through Hollywood quite successfully, and got us all believing we had to buy one of their diamonds as the only acceptable symbol of betrothal.
Hallmark did this to make us feel like such a ignorant tightwad if we did not send an expensive little scrap of paper they simply printed up. They would even print the price on it so the recipient could see just how much of the very best we would spend for.
Tobacco companies went for product placement to make us feel tobacco consumption was a cool thing to do. They would never show nearby people around sputtering and moving off - as they would if someone brought a dead roadkill possum to the table - when the smoker lit up. Instead it was portrayed as a social thing with the opportunity to offer another from the pack and light it for them. All the more to encourage people to burn through the things as fast as they could .
Control of the media has always been the venue of the controllers used to guide the controlled to act in the interests of the controllers.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:45PM
Yeah that's true, and the main players that do that sort of thing now are PR companies more than advertising companies. And the PR companies are the ones that employ the shills that show up in Internet forums and social media and pretend to like the products they're paid to push.
The way it works in practice is that the company hands the PR firm a spec sheet written by the company's marketing staff with a list of claims for the product. The PR company people will take that, do some deep thinking on how best position those claims, and then hand their shills a list of talking points and a target list of forums where they should go push them.
It used to be that normal people could pick them out easily from their high userID's and short- or non-existent posting histories, but the PR firms have gotten more sophisticated now and register low userIDs when new forums arise, and use the same userIDs for generations of shills to use to grow longer posting histories.
The big shift from traditional advertising into PR began about 5-6 years ago, when hundreds of PR firm digital job openings started flooding the New York market (and I presume elsewhere to a lesser extent). We're going to see a lot more of it as AdBlock and such measures become more widespread. (It's also why Google is going to continue making a lot of money for the foreseeable future, as the other advertising path immune to AdBlock)
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @01:56AM
Uhm, yeah. The muscles that biking exercises appeals to the women folk. Try asking any you know. The majority of them love a cyclist's physique.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 12 2015, @09:36PM
lots of red type as well as racist terms for America's enemies.
I have a few dozen other papers as well, I expect mostly from World War II but the paper is crumbling, I want to find an archivist who can separate all the pages then display them in a history museum.
The article says "a secret bomb from Hanford" actually that one was from Oak Ridge; I expect they used Hanford as a cover as nuclear reactors by then were if not actually public knowledge, at least publicly documents. Doubtlessly the Calutron electromagnetic separation - which used ten percent of the entire power output of the United States (!) - was still classified.
(Calutrons never worked very well that's why we use gas turbines now; they were in development during the war but weren't made practical until after.)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Monday October 12 2015, @10:07PM
Mark Twain as a boy or 14 or 15 worked for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal, MO, setting type and writing things that would "make the paper lively". In those days, the function of newspapers in a small town like Hannibal was about printing news stories, many pilfered from other newspapers, but more about entertainment. Books were expensive, public libraries were uncommon, and people would read anything entertaining. When Mark Twain moved to Nevada and California during the Civil War, he wrote more of his tall tales. It was in writing newspaper stories where he found his voice as a writer of humorous and not-so-humorous things.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @01:37AM
Some years before the Buffalo News started, Twain wrote for another Buffalo newspaper, in fact I believe he was a part owner of that paper for awhile. The main Buffalo public library has a good Mark Twain collection including the manuscript for Huckleberry Finn.
At the time, Buffalo was like the SF or Seattle of today, it was the high tech place to be with Niagara Falls hydro power (Tesla), bicycle manufacturing, the terminus of the Erie Canal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:47PM
It's amazing how much Twain got around. He's claimed by states all across by the USA, from Connecticut to Hawaii.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @05:09PM
He also designed a flag for the Philippines when they became an American territory:
-- http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/twain.html [loc.gov]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @07:10AM
That was around the time that giant monopolies starting forming in all their ham-handed corporate glory. It created a lot of tension.