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
Jun 05, 2001
Page
8
Betty Debnam explains how prairie settlers built sod houses in Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas with grass roots stabilizing dirt. Plant roots persisted, sprouting anew each season, and women mailed for flower seeds to plant on sod roofs. Wood was scarce, bricks rare, and sod served for schools and churches.
Settlers known as sodbusters cut sod bricks with a grasshopper plow to build a sod house or saddie. Bricks laid in a crosswise pattern for stability. Openings left for doors and windows and a ridgepole erected. One acre of sod for a one room house. Neighbor help shortcut. without it a week needed.
The Mini Page describes sod houses or soddies as cozy in winter with heat from fireplaces and thick walls, cooler in summer, and safer from tornadoes than wooden homes. It notes wind dangers, early settlers with dirt walls, leaks, and ways families improved homes from dirt to planks and windows, plus life in one room and outdoor space when dry.
A simple brownie recipe combines butter, sugar, and melted chocolate with applesauce and vanilla. Eggs are folded in off heat, then mixed with flour baking powder soda and salt before baking at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes yields 16 brownies.
Patrick Levis, 19, plays Jack Phillips on So Weird and trained since youth. He left regular school for home schooling to devote time to acting and starred on Broadway in Big. Born in Silver Spring Maryland, he has a younger brother and sister and enjoys snowboarding skiing seafood pizza and musical theater songs. He admires Jim Carrey and Mel Gibson.
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.