Yes, this football score is for real. The year was 1895. Sure, the game then was new and far different from today. But that year the Marietta College Pioneers were dominant. The Parkersburg News in a 1964 article suggested that the 1895 Marietta College team might have been the best ...
If you have been reading The Marietta Times for the last two weeks or so, you know the newspaper has been publishing since 1864. Each day since Sept. 6, we have looked at a different decade of publication. Today we look at the 1990s. The project has been a joy to work on. It started a decade ago when I was working on 365 historical front pages to mark 150 years of publication. I thought it would be an interesting feature to look at the same week of the first year of each decade. I tried to capture the Thursday edition of the third week of September because that day would align well ...
The question has been asked many times over the years: “If someone commits suicide, do they automatically go to Hell?” Sometimes the question comes from one who smugly believes they have grounds to condemn others. They view suicide as sin, a failure of faith, so these folks seek confirmation that suicide always leads to eternal condemnation. Other times the tearful question is asked by a relative or friend whose loved one has taken their own life. These folks seek reassurance of God’s grace and mercy. Biblically, the best answer is found in James 4:12 (NIV): “There is only ...
Isabella Catherine Kimbrough was born May 20, 2024, to Eddie and Olivia Kimbrough of Marietta. She was born at 9:35 p.m., weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Grandparents are Mark and Kathleen Schafer of Reno and Edwin and Crystal Kimbrough of Marietta. Great-grandmother ...
The Times of 1950 showed a country at war, this time in Asia as troops were busy fighting in the Korean Conflict. The front page of The Sept. 28, 1950, Marietta Times featured the headline ANNIHILATION OF TRAPPED REDS STARTS – UN Has No ‘Peace’ Offer. North Korea had invaded the south that June – the articles published that day seem to point to a quick end. “The battle of annihilations against some 70,000 Communist troops still in South Korea began in earnest today.” “One American force had jumped to within 24 miles of the border of Communist North Korea, ...
Peoples News on Putnam Street in the 1960s was always busy. Everyone read newspapers and magazines then. One local reporter described Peoples News as “one of the nerve centers of Marietta.” I stopped there daily to get the Cleveland Plain Dealer and devoured news about Cleveland sports. ...
