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
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1913
Page
6
Senator Mark Chamberlain of Oregon recalls a lunch hour scene in a popular cafe where four businessmen discuss the allure of vacation and the call of the wild. One dissenting voter jokes about the vote, while another mentions coming home late at night.
A collection of old proverbs on the tongue contrasts with a comic baptism anecdote in which a father names his children Burst and the priest jokes about a cloudburst. Lord Lytton visits India and quips about the Birch family, provoking unintended offense at a dinner.
In Connecticut a man named J. Coolidge Hills is recalled from a Long Island surf party where a young woman nearly drowned after a powerful breaker. She says the fright passed, but the sight of Hills at the moment she revived left her disappointed, believing she had found heaven but instead faced reality.
Friends of Johns Hopkins University seek 750000 to pair Rockefeller 250000 and reach 1000000 for moving the institution to Homewood estate above Baltimore. Dr Ira Remsen, the president, recounted standing on a bluff triggering campus laughter as students whispered about poker slang.
A survey of global advances notes a Mexican census of 15,160,360, St Louis sewer project valued over 2 million dollars, Glasgow's boundary extensions boosting its UK rank, and 400,000 hookworm cases treated by the Rockefeller commission. It recounts maritime and educational reforms, immigration shifts, new lighting tech, canal plans, and urban modernization across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
The eldest man at the campfire recalls a Paris tale where an American tourist in plain dress attends a court ball at the Tuileries. Mistaken for a court officer, he is welcomed after declaring his Boston general court attire while Americans cheer the irony of American democracy.
A timeless aphorism from Joseph Addison extols true character good habits and iron industry as impregnable to ill luck. It asserts steadfast virtues withstand misfortune and folly.
Ex speaker Joseph G. Cannon meets a stranger who notes a resemblance to Uncle Joe and Uncle Shelby Cullom. The piece then recalls a Russian nihilist anecdote about press officers and a cosmopolitan prank. A Bowery dinner ends with a dessert mix up as a beef stew.
The article urges engaged couples to observe social etiquette, valuing friends and family alongside each other. It advises the engaged woman to consider parents and relatives, avoid constant private time, and show courtesy to older family members and friends, while the man should meet his fiancée’s relatives.
A New York Tribune note highlights adhesive tape utility for home survival and crafts. It suggests labels for bottles and jars, mending hot water bottles and hoses, patching tears on fabrics, fixing window shades, preventing foot chafing, binding sheet music, fastening manuscripts, and training plants to walls or trellises.
The piece recalls England's first auction in 1700 by Elisha Vale and the rapid adoption of the sale method. It notes 18th century tax actions on auctions, 5 percent at times, repealed in 1845 with a license fee. It warns of broker collusion and fake sales in America and mentions penalties reducing such abuses.
Tamworth castle marks a thousand years of history on the site of an earlier Saxon fortress built by a daughter of Alfred the Great. The Jacobean edifice sits on a mound, famed for an ivy covered tower and a somber banqueting hall. It was sold to the corporation by the Marquis Townshend, descendant of the Marmions.
The excerpt highlights the French system's rigidity with a joke about a subprefect telegraphing the minister of the interior after seismic tremors. It contrasts government rigidity with a broader warning from the New York Tribune about a tired business world collapsing arts and culture into tabloid form.
In a spirited exchange a bride cites bad luck in delaying nuptials while her dressmaker is ill and she fears incomplete attire despite her father's willingness to fund wedding clothes. The couple debates delaying until garments are complete.
A fragmentary note cites a dog escape during a hurried moment with a bystander phrase from Publius Syrus and a stray remark in German. The text reflects a fleeting incident rather than a full report.
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.