What's inside the issues:

This digital collection of Logan's local newspaper spans 1879 to 1898 when Logan was busy building its infrastructure of roads, waterworks, and public buildings. During these years, Logan built its Mormon temple, Ogden installed gas street lights, and the Territory of Utah became a state. The Utah and Northern Railway was the area's railroad while Utah Agricultural College was its first state college. Logging, railroads, and runaway horses accounted for most of the reported accidents. People entertained themselves with balls, lectures, traveling circuses and dramatic productions, as well as Mormon church activities.

Ads were replete with miraculous curatives: cancer could be cured by drinking red clover tea; hop bitters could revitalize “feeble ladies”; Warner's “safe” remedies were good for just everything from constipation to nervous prostration; and $10 audiophones could help the deaf hear through their teeth!

The fashions, culture, and economy of the times can be gleaned from both articles and ads. Logan businesses touted their goods alongside ads for San Francisco hotels, retail stores, and professional services. In addition to news and ads, the paper offered cautionary tales, romances, and other stories to entertain and educate its readers. Quotations and sayings liberally sprinkled its pages. National and foreign news items covered politics, trade, trials, and wars, as well as chatty gossip about English royalty and the troubles in Ireland.

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