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 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1838
Page
1
A fragmentary notice appears stating publication details attributed to W C Mcaussen and L Harper. The readable portion confirms printers or publishers and the colonial era names, with no additional context available for action or event. The item reflects a printing house attribution rather than a contemporary news event.
The speaker warns against seeking fate from others and urges looking within. A dark-eyed beloved faces a doom of guilt as she contemplates a future shadowed by past bliss and tears. The poem foresees a haunted path ahead shaped by inner burdens and unspoken consequences.
A poem speaks of arranging wild roses and lilies for a dying speaker. The speaker longs for open casements to see sky and hills as friends gather near. Though death nears, fear fades into a sense of sunshine and spiritual welcome beyond earthly shadows.
From Laplace's Exposition du Systeme Dumonde the text explains solar and sidereal days and years. It discusses mean solar time, tropical and sidereal years, equinoxes and solstices, and how a fictitious second sun yields the mean year. It notes the tropical year length about 365.242264 days and the slight retrograde equinoctial shift.
The excerpt traces the origins and refinement of leap years from Julius Caesar to the Persian practice, notes the Gregorian system’s wide adoption, and discusses the week as a universal constant. It highlights century lengths, months, and the enduring role of the seven day cycle in organizing time.
A speech delivered to a literary convention argues the press must elevate its tone and ethics. It attacks abuses, defends self-respect, and calls for measures to curb licentiousness while praising public service and the dignity of journalism. Edinburgh Review 1837 commentary cited.
A critic argues that traders in philanthropy often bear flawed hearts and troubled family lives, noting that generosity to humanity can mask personal selfishness. He decries cosmopolitanism detached from patriotism as a hollow growth, citing Coleridge on rooted national springs.
The article explains caloric as a light, substance-like fluid responsible for heat and cold sensations. It describes conduction, radiation, and absorption, noting metals as conductors and glass wood as non conductors, experiments on reflection and radiation, and the behavior of heated bodies in air and vacuum.
The text reflects on how time changes feelings and aspirations, contrasting youthful buoyancy with adult calculation. It laments lost freedom, the march of routine, and art yielding to utilitarian needs as seasons and life progress. Boston Pearl.
A digest of 1850s anecdotes and notices covering the Anti Slavery Society in Maine, Cincinnati's German publishing debate, polar winters in South America, a Philadelphia German paper by doctors, and Paris correspondence. Also mentions ships trading Canada Britain, Danish bondage for peasants, French bread, a canal project in Indiana, a mail theft conviction in Erie County, flood losses in Montreal, a Windsor death at 106, Cincinnati daily papers, wheat yields in Maine, a silk balloon found near Trenton, Louisiana tobacco exports, Baltimore seamen housing, Chinese Mulberry trade, Ohio canal totals, sugar plums adulteration, and frozen frogs near Cincinnati with a Naples snow note.
A Portland Maine standard anecdote recalls the first powder burnt in the war with England aboard the President frigate under Commodore Rogers. A Belvidere 18 pounder shot cut musket muzzles, wounded midshipman Montgomery, Buck killed, and a gunner's chalk note to Dallas. The ball then lodged in Belvidere’s cabin as a globe.
Mrs. Crawford recounts a vivid anecdote from Autobiographical Sketches. A young widow in bridal weeds endures a prolonged trance, during which her husband dies. She awakens to life and death, returning a sorrowful widow from a previously joyful wife.
English comedian Munden was famed for generosity by contrast with others. In a Drury Lane plan to honor Kean, the company sought a collective gift of plate but Munden resisted, declaring he would not contribute and even suggested the cup be given without his name or autograph.
A writer notes a great deal of human nature in every man while acknowledging exceptions, including some men who are mere brutes. The reflection points to the varied moral temperaments found among people.
In a tender scene Sam Weller resists Mr Pickwick’s offer to marry him to a girl and gain independence. Mr Pickwick laments his changing life and vows to support Sam, while Sam declares unwavering loyalty and readiness to stay by his master through any hardship. The moment ends with Sam’s emotional pledge and Mr Weller’s triumphant cheer.
The article notes a vast total of 3014 languages and dialects with regional counts: 587 European, 937 Asiatic, 226 African, and 128 American. It proclaims national pride in rivers, lakes, mountains, forests, prairies, and women, asserting extreme linguistic variety and limited proficiency expectations.
The French Chamber of Deputies comprises 178 functionaries including seven ex ministers and 52 advocates. Among them are 12 magistrates, one ex peer of France and 41 ex functionaries, plus 21 military men, 15 bankers, 67 merchants, 15 iron masters, four literary men, five agriculturists, four landed proprietors, nine notaries, three physicians, and one soldier. Eighteen deputies are members of the Institute.
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.