My Wiser family once lived in Liberty County, Texas. The Liberty Vindicator newspaper has been digitized and made available online.
This took only a couple of mugs of coffee to locate in the search engine. Plenty of cousins named: Weiser, Wiser, Barrow, Abshier, Harmon, Faulk, Reavis, Bond and Carr.
Next time you take the back roads, stop and pick up a local paper in a small town.
The same type of news is printed today.