This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 22 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1913
Page
8
A fragmented OCR page shows old railway timetable fragments for Chicago, Joliet, and connections, listing passenger and freight trains with times around 9:37 PM and 8:04 AM. It also includes a humorous anecdote about a regimental barber and a gardener among troops. An advertisement section promotes Bucklen's Armrest and other products, plus home remedies and a chair design for furniture.
Missouri Life reports prisoner Henry Lee Moore, already serving life at Jefferson City, is linked to as many as 25 ax murders across Missouri Kansas Colorado and Illinois. Special Agent M W McClaughry theorizes Moore's crimes fit a single killer profile after studying the so called ax murders, including the Columbus double murder of his mother and grandmother.
Frank Shuman, renowned engineer, heads to Egypt to install his solar power irrigation system. Using parabolic mirrors, heat is intensified to 600 degrees, producing steam to drive a low pressure engine and pump 18,000 gallons per minute to irrigate 1,000 acres near Cairo. Shuman claims it offers a fuel free, durable solution with minimal upkeep, potentially transforming tropics and desert irrigation, and could also power regions in Europe.
In Wilkes County Washington Ga Dhore records a mortgage described as the most unusual ever filed. The security lists nine chickens two sows two boars two cattle plates and a revolver. The debt is 25 dollars and failure to pay at maturity triggers sale by public outcry. Home stead rights are waived. The case prompts questions about evolving property values and strict land policy.
Advertisement-like text asserts Hudsons Eczema Ointment cures chronic eczema and tetter. Includes testimonial from D. L. Kenney praising the product and price details. Mentions origins in Philadelphia and Louis, Missouri from the Pepper Chemical Co.
Bangor and surrounding cities report a surge of tabloid tablets sold as “condensed drinks” from whisky to cocktails. Vendors carry stock in Bangor Lewiston and Portland while residents improvise at home. Tablets in paper boxes or glass bottles sell for small sums, dissolving to produce a whisky like beverage with varying cost and effect.
Springfield resident Stanislaus Czyna reports a cat with a harelip that whistles like a schoolboy but cannot meow. Neighbors view the animal as a musical prodigy and a source of attention in Prospect Avenue. Some suggest the cat could become a maker of catgut violin strings.
An egg weighing fifteen grains laid by a live hen belongs to Mrs. Harvey Alexander of Vancouver Washington. The egg is about half the size of a baselnut and weighs 1 384 of a pound. Mrs Alexander found a soft shelled egg that broke to reveal a tiny egg with a hard shell inside.
A Miller township couple, Mr and Mrs W. W. Jackson, welcome their eleventh daughter, the first no boys in the line. The infant weighed about ten pounds and four ounces at birth in Lawrenceburg Indiana.
Newport's first female beach patrols, Miss Minnie Smith and Miss Janet Buchanan, wear blue skirts and sailor hats with parasols and mesh bags. A male officer follows at a respectful distance to protect them from crowds while they focus on aiding women in distress.
Miss Violet Nathan of Minnesota fled a surf party when porpoises frolicked near Malar Pier. A large porpoise brushed her, she screamed and fainted, slipping under a creature’s back. Lifeguard David Moreno rescued her and revived her on the beach.
In Louis Bt Bobby the canary, loved by Mrs William M Walker of the Plantera hotel, lost a leg when a chair was pushed and injured him. Dr Frederick W Shaffer, a veterinarian, treated the bird and, with a cocaine injection, removed the injured limb to save its life.
Pastor Penne Wall of Euclid Avenue Episcopal Church in Oak Park announces he will not accept fees for marriages, calling fees graft and urging the church to make marriages free. He says ministers should not be paid by collecting at weddings and that churches and ministers should not require such payments.
Julian Eiamong, sixty one, keeper of the house of representatives, swallows a teaspoon of coarse sand after each meal. He began the wand cure to ease sour stomach and indigestion and now claims improved digestion, better sleep, and renewed relish for life.
Edward Dunn a 28 year old native of Ammiourdale near Kansas City Kansas was pronounced the fastest man in the world by a judge of a running court but was sentenced to hammer out a 500 dollar fine in the workhouse Dunn appeared frail and supported by his mother with a broad shouldered frame noted in the report.
Pottsville resident Henry C. Russell writes from Fort Washington Maryland on May 30 1861. The letter to his widow traveled via regular U S mail after a comrade M S Richards of Pottsetown Pa entrusted it to send it home but was never delivered Richards died and the sealed letter surfaced among old papers Romwell died about five years ago
Care needed in feeding ensilage as silos rise this summer. Inexperienced feeders should start with small rations to avoid scours and poor appetite. If started with green feeds, risk of illness decreases. Spoiled silage should be discarded not fed to cattle.
At his country estate, Peter A. B. Widener, noted Philadelphia capitalist, opens a setting admired by friends seeking country life. Greenhouses, flowerbeds, and a model dairy display fine stock led by a Jersey cow Oxford’s Bella and her calf.
Farm Progress cautions on silage feeding stresses adjusting rations by daily cow intake and avoiding leftover silage in mangers. It notes silage is poor as a sole feed for horses, suitable for colts and idle horses, with excess causing loose bowels, and recommends brans and protein supplements when silage is used, while pea or clover silage benefits sheep in moderation. It emphasizes never treating silage as a balanced ration and highlights differences among feed types and livestock needs.
The Progressive Partner quotes Jim Shiftiess discussing his pig Uncle Corppateh and neighbor Hint Shiftiess. He describes a big eight foot square pen with an old roof and a trough. He criticizes small sunlit pens and guards hogs in pasture with shade, water, and rubbing them for fat.
Instructions describe machine darning of table linen using medium weight darning cotton and a No 50 white cotton needle to cover holes with back and forth stitching on the right side. Also details a marble cleansing method with soda and soft soap in hot water, to soak several days then wash with warm water.
Stamford tale recounts three railway catastrophes on the New York New Haven and Hartford line in two years with forty nine deaths and many injuries. It cites Mellene and McHenry arrest, alleged neglect, faulty brakes, inexperienced engineer, and failed enforcement of rules as causes while urging a thorough investigation and safer scheduling and equipment.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.