Good Old Days: May 10, 2018

Printing technology of yore

Two men watch as a third works a Heidelberg printing press, circa 1953. One of the men watching is wearing a shirt that reads "Original Heidelberg." From the Hutchison Studio Photographs of WSU and Pullman, Wash. Collection. Reprinted with permission.

125 year ago

The Commoner

April 28, 1893

Samuel T. Riggs was examined Monday afternoon before Justice of the Peace Zimmerman on a charge of exhibiting a pistol in a crowd. The evidence was very plain against Riggs. The court knew nothing and took no cognizance of any lieu-land dispute and bound the defendant over in th...