Local historian Tim Vollet takes a look back at what made the news in 1924.

100 years ago Oct. 10, 1923: Illinois Wesleyan University this year for the first time is offering a class in news writing.

What was school like 100 years ago? Well, kids really did have to walk 5 miles in the snow to get to school! Here's how education evolved.

Working title: The Same Way It Was Done in America 100 Years Ago Some inspiration: Recently Reddit triggered a conversation around the question, "What is something better the old-fashioned way ...

Read the full 100 Years Ago section at manisteenews.com: MNA Fri. June 12, 1925 pg. 1 “Encouraging reports of preparations for Manistee’s Homecoming festivities [over July 4 holiday ] were ...

In the years before NBC’s American debut, the center of television development was London, where the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sought to upgrade beyond Baird’s crude broadcasts ...

Solar eclipses have been linked to the start of wars and the end of empires, but in 1919 an eclipse revealed the workings of the universe itself.

We can write verse, if not about the perceived transcendent order in the universe, then about the feelings of unease within ourselves; we can even draw our images from the detritus of consumer ...

One-hundred-fifty years ago, if the average farmwife took to her bed for that length of time, her family would starve, her animals would turn feral, and the dark forest would reclaim her homestead.

The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week Jan. 16-22, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County Historical Museum’s newspaper archives. Read the full ...