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
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
9
Rates for mail delivery in the United States and Mexico with advance payments. Various daily and weekly options listed, including special pricing outside Atlanta. Address in Washington Bureau and sales points in New York, with notes on delivery timing and agent responsibility.
A public statement denounces ministers joining a political campaign as harming Atlanta by attacking motives and the city itself. It insists there is no moral issue in the upcoming recall election, only court matters to be settled, and urges voters not to endorse falsehoods about Atlanta’s character.
Henry Ford and a party of American citizens landed in Norway in a bid to influence European nations toward peace. The mission, despite sincerity and hope, was doomed from the start as the Oscar II sailed from New York intending to ram a great stone.
Fragmentary wartime note recalls that Britain France Italy Russia and Japan agreed to seek peace terms independently without demanding preconditions from each other. The five governments signed a brief instrument by senior officials but the author questions whether any nation will honor the pledge.
The Springfield Republican analyzes the 1916 Republican search for a strong candidate to oppose President Wilson. It notes Roosevelts lingering presence in talk, Taft and Root unavailable, Hughes excluded, and the party's dilemma over finding a unifying, decisive leader to avoid splitting the ranks.
A Oregon case highlights the push for stricter divorce rules as a Salem man requests simple papers from a rural justice of the peace. The exchange reveals frustration with long trips for filings and hints at broader calls for reform amid a backdrop of political chatter and world events.
A collage of voices and verses from a early 20th century publication recalls New Year trumpet calls and hopes for travel and ground to be crossed. The piece blends dialect poetry, petitions, and political flotsam about signatures, roads, and the Georgia to Kansas mood, ending with communal cheer and a benediction for peace. It cites petitions in Wichita Times, Abilene, and a Kansas governor, plus regional chatter about heaven and the Land of Promise.
Abe Martin notes a claim that a young wife who cooked brown fried mush is not in immediate danger of cruel or inhuman treatment. The piece mentions Lawson Tanger’s death in jail and a man who might have become rich as a lightman rod agent.
An exchange argues kerosene serves as the best extinguisher for baled cotton fires. It penetrates to the center of the mass, choking flames through low burning temperature and absence of flames. After discharge the oil evaporates, leaving cotton largely undamaged.
A garbled festive piece notes the old year ending and the new year coming with a refrain on ins and outs of life. It highlights a remarkable post Christmas construction crew attendance record, then warns city departments will need far more funds than available for next year. A janitor speech at City Hall honors Christmas, expresses gratitude, and imagines a heavenly reunion with inspectors, chief cook, and bottle washer roles in a playful, religious-tinged farewell.
A humorous sketch describing Maine as a rugged map corner region surrounded by Canada and the Atlantic with stone houses and boats, brimming with hotel prices, lumber, potatoes, pine trees, and steadfast Maine statesmen in Congress. The piece playfully notes climate, rough names, and enduring politicians.
The Indianapolis News describes the venerable rose tree near the Church of Hidesheim in Germans Nothwithstanding, said to be planted by Charlemagne. Though many parties rose to power, they all tended the tree. It spans nearly a man’s bed with five main branches trained against the church, protected by railing. German soldiers tended it in early times as Catholics and Protestants alternated control, ground drained by Turenne’s forces, and later Napoleon’s soldiers installed the trellis.
Mrs W S Witham headlines a vaudeville style show at the federal prison last night. Her husband Mr Witham, a banker and noted orator, led a 30 prisoner orchestra in patriotic airs while an all star troupe performed minstrel style numbers. The act drew loud laughter as jokes about cigars and married life mixed with musical pieces and dialect singing, ending amid the prison crowd’s cheering and stirring soundscape.
A weeklong engagement begins at the Georgian theater with the film adaptation of Damaged Goods. The Mutual American Studios production stars Adrienne Vorsin as the street girl, Richard Bennett as George DuPont, and Maude Hilton as Mrs Dupont. The film heightens realism through cinema while preserving the story's moral message about the consequences of vice and the vulnerabilities of marriage.
The excerpt traces Wisconsin’s shifting status from its early alignment with Indiana and Illinois to its final establishment within the United States in 1843. It also notes twine costs to the Post Office, idle strings being repurposed, and saving potential.
A fragmented verse laments sickness and recovery detailing bed rest and neighborly care. The speaker recalls ill health from gout mumps fever and catarrh and praises neighbors for aid and kindness during illness before recovery and reflection on neighborhood generosity.
An article recounts the Liberty Bell’s peril and rescue from Philadelphia to Allentown by John Jacob Mickley a French Huguenot descendant. It notes the bell hid in a Reform Church cellar until Yorktown and a tablet marks the event. It also includes Britain’s Kitchener praised for steadfast leadership and resolve.
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.