A favorite is the story of "Adolph Hitler" living in the mountains near Middlesboro!
28 August 1895: The Son of a Lord Injured
01 September 1925: Babe Ruth To Make A Public Apology To Miller Huggins
27 July 1893: A Kentucky Bank Fails
19 January 1952: Soldier Honored
10 May 1951: First Negro Plays In Organized Ball In Southern State
10 August 1906: Battle With Desperado
03 August 1916: Cloudburst Annihilates Tennessee Village
17 January 1912: Bequeaths Head To Doctor
April 1919: Bravest Man In US Is Afraid Of Wife and The Manring Shows "The Cat And The Canary"
22 October 1893: Bad For Middlesborough
09 January 1906: Life Sentence For Two
08 July 1895: This Is News: Cattle Browze In the Street
07 October 1901: A Family Feud
26 March 1932: Met By Officers (1st Column)
22 October 1889: "The Bedbug Song": And He Got There Just The Same (E.C. Colgan Dies)
23 July 1924: Death Wiping Out Feud In Kentucky; Members Thinning
21 December 1948: Daily News Page
09 November 1922: Formal Opening Hotel Cumberland Today
19 January 1950: Weekly Barn Dance Starts Tonight
23 September 1890: Proposals For Building A Dam Across Little Yellow Creek (5th Column)
22 April 1939: Pruden Birthday Party (My Family Mentioned)
15 November 1938: Middlesboro School News
24 February 1934: Mother's Birthday Newspaper
30 July 1952: Mountain Clans Named In Murder
1924: Schools Observe Education Week (Pre-1950's Pledge Of Allegience)
04 August 1916: 28 Known Victims Of Cloud Burst; 10 Missing
24 November 1894: Gold In Kentucky
09 April 1900: Election Trouble In Kentucky
16 August 1956: Miner Seized For Posing As Hitler In Fraud
1956: Preacher Who Kept Hitler Alive Arrested
28 October 1924: Honor Roll For Six Week Term
23 January 1948: Obituary of Otis James Irwin
09 October 1935: Birthday Party Is Given
10 February 1908: Knoxville Not So Dry: The Jug Train (Middlesboro)
23 August 1923: Open Letter From Mr. Yarber (KKK)
26 November 1948: Robed Ku Klux Klan'ers Go To Church
05 February 1923: L.W. Owens and Grace Partin Wed
19 May 1951: Sports Slants: Little Mary Grace Parrott
13 February 1902: Fight Between Moonshiners And Officers: Nine Men Killed In Scrimmage
20 February 1902: Lee Turner Captured At Knoxville Tennessee
15 November 1893: Middlesboro Without A Bank
October 1924: Teachers Address P.T.A. Last Night
15 April 1941: Four Persons Dead During Mine Crash
1924: Rose Hill and Ewing News
1923: Nellie Cordell-She Knows All
26 November 1914: Daily News Sports Page and New South Brewery Ad
17 October 1905: Shot Dead Because of Woman
01 August 1895: Voted For Monroe
19 July 1935: Old Mountaineer Is Sought For Slaying Two Officers
10 March 1924: Dean Of Doctors-105 Years
16 May 1903: General Howard In Kentucky Mountains
04 June 1949: Get Aquainted With Your Carrier
September 1890: Turned To Stone-A Big Green Cloud Passes Over
26 October 1940: More Numbers For Middlesboro Draftees Given
28 October 1940: More Numbers For Middlesboro Draftees Given
28 December 1945: Rescue Squad Finds Nine Trapped Miners
16 November 1894: Hanged Himself
1907: Gave Birth To 5-All Well
16 February 1924: Motch Motor Company Radio Ad and Comics
16 November 1948: Sends Concratulations (WMIK)
05 December 1905: Reign Of Terror Exists
07 September 1890: The New Route-Welcome To Middlesborough (Very good early history)
1923: Shelburne Drug Company-Sudden Service
17 December 1940: Three Wounded In Gunfight
1898: Smallpox Epidemic Middlesboro Kentucky (Mentioned 1st Column)
10 March 1914: Feudist, Slayer of 11, Dead
23 September 1899: Feudist Shot In Back
16 February 1913: Not Full Target Size-Why The Kentucky Mountaineers Are Usually Small In Stature
03 December 1948: WMIK Reception Reports
16 November 1931: Authors Indicted For Criminal Syndicalism In South-Kentucky Takes Action
29 August 1890: Fought To The Death-A Bloody Duel In Middlesborough Kentucky
23 June 1920: Murder Mystery Puzzles Detroit
03 July 1910: Paving Brick Durable (Middlesbrough England)
08 July 1936: Walter R. Yeary Secures Position With Scott's Stores
15 August 1949: Daily News-Society News and Election Results
1949: Official Opening Of Station Sunday At Hotel Cumberland (WCPM)
30 October 1951: Daily News Society Page and WMIK Log
16 December 1948: Daily News Sports
19 November 1948: WMIK Promos and Sports
08 November 1951: WMIK Radio Log
1952: WMIK Democrat Convention
08 March 1906: Women Fought A Duel
17 November 1933: Jack Zuta and Ike Ginsburg
Written by Chuck Owens
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