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October 9, 2021

Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜An October week promoting better homes for Americans in 1922〜

September 20, 2021

The 1895 Homing Pigeon Experiment On the Manoubia

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜An 1895 French homing pigeon experiment from a steamship〜

September 17, 2021

The Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜The feathered news couriers of Manhattan in 1895〜

Reviewing Elephind: A Powerful Newspaper Search Engine

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Reviewing a powerful search engine for archived newspapers〜

The Poetry of Charlotte Becker – Early Twentieth Century Poet from Buffalo

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜34 poems from a little-known, but oft-published, early twentieth century poet from Buffalo〜

Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother’s Day in the United States

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Anna Jarvis’s successful effort to make Mother’s Day a holiday in the United States〜