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A cartoon drawing of a rooster, two hens, two chicks, and a hatchling along with a drawing of a chicken coop.

Cobb County November 15, 2024

Cobb’s agricultural past: a 1907 poultry show

[This is an evergreen history article we periodically republish, often with added information] Anyone who consistently follows Cobb County Board of Commissioners meetings or Planning Commission hearings is probably aware…

History September 8, 2024

An 1895 Atlanta newspaper was asked: “Has the bicycle come to stay?”

[This is one of a group of evergreen articles that we often update and republish. It was originally published in December of last year] We’ve been heavily using Georgia Historic…

A color drawing of a 19th century cannon

From the Editor September 8, 2024

Secessionist fantasies: 1861 style

By Larry Felton Johnson While browsing 19th-century issues of Cobb County newspapers on the Georgia Historic Newspapers site, I ran across these two articles in the secessionist Marietta Advocate. Both…

Marietta August 23, 2024

Marietta History Center highlights the role of typewriters during WWII

Image: section from a Remington ad created around 1914, screenshot from a December 1914 issue of the August Herald from the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection The clatter of typewriters is…

History August 20, 2024

A grave robbery in Cobb County: 1879

[We occasionally update and republish our evergreen history articles. This article first appeared in the Courier in November 23, 2023 In the original version of the article we stated we…

Austell June 3, 2024

1911 crime story from Austell; a 16-year-old bride flees with her burglar husband

By Larry Felton Johnson I’m going to do this introduction in first-person, because I want to make a personal observation about the story I’ve reprinted below. There are references in…

Grainy photo of alleged forger Horace C. Gray from a 1910 newspaper

Marietta May 27, 2024

Horace C. Gray: Criminal mastermind or harmless blowhard?

Yesterday we ran a Marietta history article based on a 1910 crime feature from the Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian was a newspaper published from 1906 to 1939. For most of…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

A cartoon terrier holds up a paper with Dog Tax written and a "canceled" stamp over it

Smyrna May 21, 2024

Smyrna in 1907: dog owners up in arms over dog tax exemption for terriers

Image above created with DALL-E from OpenAI, and editing with Canva As editor and publisher of the Cobb County Courier, I often read through old newspapers on the Georgia Historic…

Smyrna April 18, 2024

When Smyrna’s speed limit was 8 mph

The June 3, 1909 issue of a now-defunct newspaper called the Atlanta Georgian published the following story about a speed-limit ordinance Smyrna’s city council had recently passed (we’ve included a…

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