There is a website that has newspaper extracts that you can search. The sited did not have any BOWDOIN names. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com Below is what they had for BOWDEN: The Eskridge Star, Eskridge, Kansas Nov.10, 1898 Local Chat: Edgar BOWDEN has recieved a small printing press, type, ink, and is now an ameteur printer. ~~~~~ Alamogordo News 29 Feb 1908 Last week the BOWDEN second hand store was robbed of about $75 worth of watches and jewelry. The thieves cut the panel of the door out and entered the room from there. No clue has been found as to the guilty parties. (This would be Almogordo, New Mexico ~~~~~ American Eagle November 6, 1858 Louisburg, Franklin Co., NC Valuable Land for Sale In pursuance of a Decree of the Court of Equity entered at Fall Term 1858, in the matter of Lucy BUNN, John T. BUNN , Bennett BOWDEN and wife , and others, I shall proceed to sell at William T.SPIVEYS Store, on the 29th day of November next, the tract of Land in Franklin County belonging to the Heirs at Law of David BUNN, deceased, adjoining the Lands of Hardy WOOD, Allison LEE, Lunneford WILLIAMS, and others containing 227.5 acres. October 18th, 1858. Thos. K. THOMAS, C.M.E.