Newspapers

This last week we took a venture into our archives to pull out and examine some vintage news papers. The Pinedale roundup had been in print for over 100 years. It has remained a part of local history throughout the years, and continues to document and bring to the public stories and entertainment.
Archives from the Pinedale Roundup years 1904 to 1977 are online and are easy to access and view. You never know when you might find an article about a relative or something interesting you'd like to have a copy of.

Here were some things we found interesting as we were browsing through some 1935 and 1936 issues.

For many years, close to ten decades, Pinedale Wyoming was the farthest town from any railroad, thus the perfect town slogan for every newspaper heading. In a February 1936 issue one of the lead stories was how the small town of Pinedale Wyoming was published in a Shanghai, China newspaper. If you read below you'll find the reason for this was that Pinedale was in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' for the very reason of being "the farthest town from a railroad than any other in the U.S.A"
Of course we can imagine the locals of Pinedale were very proud of this at the time.

                And here we have an entertaining little story of a fisherman named Bill and his dog from an April 1935 issue.

An observation made by one the the journalists on watching executions...

"The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of well-known aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was one of the most highly publicized crimes of the 20th century. The 20-month-old toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs' home in neighboring Hopewell Township. A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture.

After an investigation that lasted more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. In a trial that was held from January 2 to February 13, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end.

Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and subsequent trial "the biggest story since theResurrection". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime."- Wikepedia

On a lighter note...