France and Prussia are on the brink of war! Southern plantations are importing Chinese laborers to work in their cotton and sugar fields! A German woman thinks her husband is cheating on her with that hussy Katrina von Trump!

This dramatic episode of Past & Printed (and our first from the 1870s) takes us to the ardently abolitionist, fervently religious, and surprisingly interesting town of Warren, Ohio and their newspaper, the Western Reserve Chronicle.

This was actually a more interesting read than I originally expected, and took me (and by extension you, dear listener) down a couple or three rabbit holes!

Recent developments from the Great War (both domestic and international), journalists are warned in Henry Thaw's sanity hearings, and local baseball teams have one helluva weekend!

All this news and more, as we dive into a paper that's pretty close to home, the Monday, June 28, 1915 edition of the Perth Amboy Evening News from Perth Amboy, New Jersey!

The Prime Minister is on his deathbed, Members of Parliament are being investigated for corruption, and the almost perpetual trade conflicts with the Americans continue! Political crises abound, as we head back up north, looking at the Saturday, May 30, 1891 edition of The Daily Gleaner from Fredericton, New Brunswick!

The newly-inaugurated President Harding lays out his administrations goals, the governor battles one industry to preserve another, and horticultural advice abounds, as we travel to my birth-state of Louisiana, looking at the Saturday, April 23, 1921 edition of The Gonzales Weekly, from Gonzales, Louisiana!

A shootout between rival ranchers, record-level copper output, and a new ice supplier! In this episode of Past & Printed, the March 21, 1907 edition of The Copper Era from Clifton & Morenci, Arizona illustrates how wild (and mundane) the west was, even into the 20th Century!

In our first episode of 2026, we've got news from the gold mines! A local hockey team ends its losing streak! A labor union's commentary on Hitler's economic polices (spoiler alert: they're not a fan)! All this and more, as we head up to the Great White North, and dig into the March 7, 1941 edition of The Whitehorse Star, from Whitehorse, Yukon.

A new carting service skirts regulations and angers the establishment, modern ideas for caring for the poor and homeless, and concerns about the local fire departments driving skills are addressed. All this, and more, as we reach our final episode of the year, looking at the December 27, 1913 edition of The Larchmonter Times from Larchmont, NY!

Where is the rightful seat of Spink County? Was Peter the Great really more like Peter Griffin? What if I want to both improve my physique and get fatter at the same time? Well, the December 17, 1884 edition of the Emmons County Record has opinions on all those topics! In 1884, the Emmons County Record was newly established in the up-and-coming town of Williamsport...which ceased to exist by 1903. But the paper itself lives on in North Dakota, so join your host, Loyd in taking a look into one of its earliest editions, on this episode of Past & Printed!