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 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1909
Page
7
A unique cedar in Navajo canyon within Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado has grown upright with its roots gripping rock as its top leans toward the canyon floor. The photo records a forty foot height and ten inch trunk diameter with branches curving upward to adapt to the reversed stance.
Ray Rabey of Huntington Long Island plans a $20 000 chicken house for his fancy hens. Each hen will have a separate boudoir and a record kept of eggs laid to judge quality and output.
Dr Doyen of Paris after Budapest congress reportedly grafted a four inch piece of a sheep’s jugular vein into a man’s leg to replace a contracted segment. The patient had earlier benefited from the operation but mobility failed due to vein circulation, prompting the animal vein graft under anesthesia.
The article describes a lavish 110 by 20 foot house boat on the Danube with 16 rooms and a garage for a touring car plus three pony stalls. A rooftop garden above a farm yard shelters poultry for the boat’s cuisine as part of a resort style craft popular among the affluent along European rivers.
A patient underwent surgery where normal blood circulation was quickly re established and the joining began healing rapidly. Swelling in the leg disappeared soon after the operation was completed.
A resident of Suez who imported bees from Cairo into a two and a half foot long hive finds his garden under hornet attack. Hornets guard the area, prey on the bees and threaten the hive, while attempts with poison fail as hornets turn their ire toward the bees.
A Durban bull trained to pull a light trotting wagon has excited Western Pennsylvania audiences this fall. He has competed at harness meets, clocking a mile in under two minutes and thirty seconds for a four year old. After three years of training he stays calm despite red dust and flags, and a possible match with a team of bison trained by Ernest Harold Baynes is discussed.
Mrs B M Gracie of Pittsburg was held prisoner by a sewing machine needle that pierced her finger and wall as she fed thread. Alone in the house she fainted after minutes of agony. Neighbors freed her and a doctor removed the needle thread with a minor operation.
Arthur Baylor captured a six foot two inch osprey near Danville Pennsylvania after over an hour struggle. The bird attacked with talons as Baylor shot the right wing and, aided by a passerby, finally subdued the wounded fish hawk near the chicken yard.
Reports from Tokyo state Prince Ito of Japan, a key constitutional architect and statesman, has been assassinated by a Korean in Harbin while en route for a Manchurian meeting with Russia's finance minister. The shock comes as details on the incident remain brief and the political implications uncertain.
A young Cherokee man named Jack Willis barricaded a country schoolhouse near Sleeper Oklahoma with children inside. He fired on officers wounding Constable Tuck Ketcher, then was killed by Constable Wilson after returning fire. The children escaped through windows as the clash ended.
Reports say Mrs George Cornwallia West former Lady Randolph Churchill and Winston Churchill's mother plans a large scale bull frog farm near a London suburb leasing 40 acres of marshy land. She orders many bullfrogs from France and will fence the site with fine mesh wire.
Miss Jose L. Fritz typed 1425 words in 15 minutes from dictation with no errors at the Madison Square Garden business show. The feature followed reports from The Corriere of Rome about an Italian document on an airship voyage in 1761, prompting investigators to search Civita Vecchia for a Grimaldi and for the origin of the piece.
Wireless telephony has not proven an unqualified success on the battleship fleet. Reports indicate messages cannot be sent over long distances except under very favorable conditions, and when the telephone is in war.
A brief exchange shows a seasoned non commissioned role calling to recruit. The recruit confirms prior exposure to powder and mentions a drug store job before transformation.
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.