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College Students' Media Consumption And Their Voting Habits, Peggy Anne Prudhomme

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Perception Of And Reactions To The Presence Of Url's In Print Advertising Of A Non-Technology Brand, Neil Melancon

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis, through an experiment of 108 subjects, studies the relationship between the presence of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL or web address) in newspaper advertisements and perception of the product advertised as well as the likelihood to act on the advertisement. The findings reveal URLs do in fact have an effect on perception, although, as it is suggested in the theoretical framework, it does not necessarily induce the subjects to act on the ad. This study also finds there is a stronger inclination for perception change to take place versus the likelihood for consumers to either seek more information …

Newspaper Coverage Of Nonreligious Paranormal Phenomena: A Content Analysis Of The San Antonio Light And San Antonio Express-News, Pamela L. Parmer

Theses & Dissertations

A content analysis was used to examine how paranormal phenomena was portrayed in the San Antonio daily newspapers and determine if there was any trend in portrayals from 1970 to 1990. The San Antonio Light and the San Antonio Express-News were analyzed from March to May 1970 and March to May 1990. The analysis included data from the individual papers, comparing and contrasting the data from the two time periods. The data between the two papers also was compared and contrasted. The phenomena included unidentified flying objects, aliens, psychics, and ghosts. It excluded religious phenomena such as reincarnation, witchcraft, and …

The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role In Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This dissertation explores the critical role played by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper's editor, Lenoir Chambers, in moderating public opinion during Norfolk, Virginia's, 1958/1959 public-school closing.

In 1958 the nation's attention was focused on Norfolk. In an attempt to stymy judicially mandated integration, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., supported by the powerful political organization of United States senator Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., ordered the city to close its public schools.

Norfolk was a major urban area. Over ten thousand students were displaced by the state action; and four months after the closing, three thousand students were still receiving no education. …

0402: Walter Lippman Collection, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Nationally-known journalist and philosopher; papers include photographs, magazine and newspaper articles, and pamphlets, and "Today and Tomorrow", vols. 1-117 (1931-1967).

Henry Radcliffe Sims Papers - Accession 9, Henry Radcliffe Sims

Manuscript Collection

The Henry Radcliffe Sims Papers consist primarily of personal and business correspondence and offers a good source of information on the Sims family's varied interests in South Carolina, especially their businesses in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The correspondence generally deals with Henry Sims' brief military career; his presidency at Winthrop; his efforts along with his brothers' help to establish a radio station at Orangeburg; his constant concern in the Sims Publishing Company; his interest in the political and educational welfare of his nephews; his devotion to his family; and his association with various South Carolina legislators. Areas of research would perhaps …

Ua96/1 Southern Educator, Vol. 1, No. 2, Southern Normal School

WKU Administration Documents

Quarterly newspaper published by the Southern Normal School to advertise courses, publicize events on campus and keep alumni informed. The paper has been scanned for searching, but is not 100% full-text searchable. Name index available at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/284/

• Green, Robert. Value of a Liberal Education
• Educational Corporation Organized
• Law Department of the Southern Normal School
• Law Students
• Education the Road to Civic Power
• Governmental Repressiveness
• Guilliams, J.M. Some Hints on Teaching Arithmetic
• Guilliams, J.M. Some Definitions of Grammar
• Capt. C.J. Vanmeter
• A College for Teachers
• Frisbie Hall
• Harman, J. Lewie. Will It Pay to Study Shorthand?
• Ashby, W.S. The Origin & …

Ua1a The Illustrated South, Vol. 3, No. 1, The Illustrated South

WKU Administration Documents

Single sheet newspaper printed in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Graduating Class of Potter College at Bowling Green, 1901
• The Girl He Married Secret
• Joseph Reed, President Lawyers' Club
• If You Would Read Character Study Lips
• After the Quarrel
• Lynchings
• O'Malley, Charles. Hush, Hark, the Fairyland Bells Are Ringing

The Evening Item, July 30, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a train robbery in Long Pine, Nebraska, a wildfire burning out of control in East Saginaw, Michigan, and a message from President Benjamin Harrison as to why the Louisiana Lottery Company must be closed, and more. On the second page there is a note from the editor stating that this issue is the last of The Evening Item and citing …

The Evening Item, July 29, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features a list of general news from across the United States of America, official news of war from the United States minister to the Argentina, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 28, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about General [Pellegrini] assuming the position of President of the Argentine Republic due to attacks on the government by revolutionary forces, recent growth of industrial enterprises in the South, an article discussing the effects of a reciprocity agreement would have on relations with South America, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 26, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. This Saturday edition of The Evening Item was published in two separate parts, but those parts have been combined here for ease of reading. The front page of this issue features stories about the forcing ranchers to move their cattle from Cherokee land in Kansas, United States Senator Vance speaking about the recent tariff bill, and more. Of particular note, on the second page of this issue there is …

The Evening Item, July 25, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a Dr. Henry Meyer being tried in Chicago for committing insurance fraud, a selection of news about the United States and the World including a blurb about war in El Salvador, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 24, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the steamship Egypt catching fire while en route to Liverpool from New York, news of correspondence between the United States and British governments regarding negotiations about seal fisheries on the Bering Sea, and more. On the second page there's a section titled Science and Progress that details recent inventions and discoveries including a study about the effects of a pound …

The Evening Item, July 23, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features a digest of news from Europe including a small blurb about a hurricane in Russia killing nineteen townspeople, a train wreck in Colorado, the status of the wheat crop across multiple states, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 22, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the five Central American countries preparing for war against El Salvador, a trip by Captain W.J. McGee of the Unites States Engineer Corps, from New Orleans to Dubuque, Iowa on horseback, an attempts in Buenos Aires to overthrow the government, and more. On the second page there is a short blurb and illustration of a new lock that prevents the …

The Evening Item, July 21, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about anarchy and civil unrest in El Salvador, a band of prospectors dying of starvation while searching for gold in Alaska, news of a vote on the Original Package Bill, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 19, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. This Saturday edition of The Evening Item was published in two separate parts, but those parts have been combined here for ease of reading. The front page of this issue features stories about the Western Union telegraph building in New York catching fire, news of a discovery of a highly flammable liquid, "Diamond B," in the remnants of Tioga steamship explosion, a shootout in Tuscumbia, Alabama over gossip about …

The Evening Item, July 18, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about Texas Congressman, William Crain, brandishing a revolver in search of a St. Louis Republic correspondent, a steamboat collision in Detroit, the capture of a member of the Rube Burrow gang, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 17, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the increase in the number of United States post offices increasing by fifty percent in the last ten years, lightning striking multiple people in Pennsylvania during a storm, a drought that is endangering crops from multiple states, and more. On the fourth page there is a story detailing the process that happens on a naval ship when a man falls …

The Evening Item, July 16, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a burial for sixty-six casualties in Red Wing, Minnesota from a recent steamship explosion, a warehouse fire in Minneapolis that burned $712,000 in stock from multiple companies, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 15, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about B. Shepherd White arrested for embezzling funds from a fire escape manufacturer, a celebration of the French Federation of 1790 and the Storming of the Bastille, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 14, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a fireman that attempted to crash a train headed for Chicago, the death of American General, John C. Fremont, and more. On the fourth page of there is a short article detailing the process of how author, Charles Dickens, wrote his novels. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 12, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the steamboat Tioga exploding and killing twenty passengers on the Chicago River, discussion in the United States Senate about a recent shipping bill, news of the status of a variety of stocks and crops due the changes in weather and other factors, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 11, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the passage of the Silver Bill by the United States Senate, the collision of an excursion train with a freight train in Birmingham, Alabama, and more. On the fourth page there is an article about women learning to box for self-defense in New York. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 10, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about the possible replacement of the Interstate Commerce Railway Association with the Western Railroad Association taking its place, a train collision with casualties at the Kansas City railroad crossing, and more. On the fourth page there is an article on the Pasteur Institute in New York and their treatment process for hydrophobia. Also included in this issue are local and regional …

The Evening Item, July 9, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a high temperatures in central and eastern states, a report that current crop yields are not up to average in several states, and more. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as well as advertisements.

The Evening Item, July 8, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a train derailing in Manteno, Illinois, news about changes to a variety of stocks, the United States Senate discussing bills to encourage American shipping, and more. On the second page there is a small article about the unofficial count for the population for Dayton which is listed as 61,330. Also included in this issue are local and regional news as …

The Evening Item, July 7, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. The front page of this issue features stories about a suit brought against Minneapolis by St. Paul in an attempt to discredit the census of Minneapolis, a famine spreading through Cairo and upper Egypt, Congress possibly adjourning within the week after 167 days in session, and more. On the fourth page, there is a section called Scientific Gleanings that features science facts and statistics. Also included in this issue …

The Evening Item, July 5, 1890, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

The Evening Item

The Evening Item was a daily newspaper published by the Wright Brothers' Company, Item Publishing Co. This paper, published from April 1890 through July 1890, focused on world and local events. This Saturday edition of The Evening Item was published in two separate parts, but those parts have been combined here for ease of reading. The front page of this issue features stories about how the 4th of July was celebrated in a variety of cities, a Brooklyn pugilist dying after a match with a boxer from Chicago, and more. On the eighth page there is a small article about …