It depends very much on the year, owner and number of pages.
Before 1880, they are rarely on the front page. As time advance, and depending on the
prominence of the person, these became more common. But for most people, obituaries longer
than two paragraphs were rare and it was not common to name the parents in most until
after 1900, often after 1910.
Births were rarely announced, marriages and deaths more often. Full obituaries are rare
before about 1890. Usually it's just age, name, date and location.
Death are often in two places. Under a heading for deaths and in the local news items from
communities. So you have to read all of these. Marriages are also often under a marriage
headline, but not always.
There were some changes in owners and they did things differently. As the 1800s went on,
there were more pages, so the locations of the local news changed. In later years, there
were often news items on two pages, and an increasing amount on the front.
In many ways, local news increased during the Civil War. I think it was because so many
people were away from home and people wanted to hear about them. That's just a
conjecture.
-----Original Message-----
From: Deblack71(a)aol.com
To: inswitze(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 9:10 am
Subject: Re: [INSWITZE] Early Switzerland Co. newspapers - digitized images
does anyone know which pages ususally listed the annoucements:
birth
marriage
death
obituary
thank you -
DeAnne
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