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To Get Nobel Peace Prize

Northern Wisconsin advertiser (Wabeno, Wis.) · 15 December 1911

A 1911 American newspaper front page reporting that Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden.

Reports Curie receiving her second Nobel Prize, in Chemistry, from the King of Sweden.

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Full scanned front page of the Northern Wisconsin Advertiser, Wabeno, Wisconsin, dated 1911. Multiple columns of small print with headlines including 'Save Three From Death in Mine', 'Chicago Given Big G.O.P. Convention', and a 'To Get Nobel Peace Prize' item. Advertisements for real estate, a saloon, a barber shop, and insurance appear on the right.
"To Get Nobel Peace Prize," Northern Wisconsin Advertiser, 15 December 1911. Library of Congress. (Text is an AI-generated OCR copy.)

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What it is

This is the front page of the Northern Wisconsin Advertiser from Wabeno, Wisconsin, dated 15 December 1911, held by the Library of Congress. It reports that King Gustave of Sweden presented the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie Curie in Stockholm, though the headline mistakenly calls it the Nobel Peace Prize. The text here is a copy of the page's OCR made by an AI model, so it may contain errors.

Why it matters

This small-town American paper shows how quickly news of Curie's second Nobel Prize spread worldwide, even to rural communities, though the error in the headline shows how such news could be garbled or misunderstood as it travelled.

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  • Why might the headline confuse the Nobel Peace Prize with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
  • What does it tell us that a small-town paper reported this story at all?
  • How reliable do you think local papers were for reporting international science news?

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