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 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
8
The fragment lists a sum of 91 pounds and a reference to millennia in roman numerals, with stray letters suggesting a catalog or ledger entry. The readable text provides no clear event, date, or identifiable entity beyond monetary notation.
Dr. G H Barksdale, WV Tuberculosis Association president, urges strong support for Christmas seal sales, more sanatoria, and expanded prevention and treatment across the state. He warns that 2 500 people die yearly in the state from TB and stresses that prevention protects many others, especially children, workers, and social seekers. He notes WV has under 200 beds for consumptives and calls for decisive action to cut the disease’s impact.
Western saloons are donated and bought by Methodist ministers to be rebuilt as churches and parsonages. District superintendents report more than twenty churches and parsonages built from old saloons in western Wisconsin. Fifteen parsonages furnished with oak hotel furniture from Medford Wisconsin.
A hysterious epidemic in Dublin is thought to be typhus fever. Health authorities investigate and find the infection appears to spread from cats with higher mortality among cats than humans.
Maiden Rock resident Louis Nelson owns a kitten described as a freak with three eyes aligned horizontally and three mouths arranged vertically with one above and one below the normal mouth. The unusual animal drew attention in the small Wisconsin town.
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.