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 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
2
A long column of global snipes and observations from The International including commentary on American, British, French, and Korean affairs. It laments Spain in the Americas, praises American rail ambitions in China, notes New York vacant-lot farming, and reports Korea moves toward a royal marriage with a proposed 80 year old future queen.
A Paris protest over replacing rabbits with monkey derived substitutes for meat has emerged. African monkeys are imported in large numbers to disguise rabbit dishes as Hevre broiled chick sauces, touted as strong stock for sauces and soups. Rabbits remain edible, valued for enhancing broths and meals according to the New York Sun.
An odd old note describes tobacco as a weather barometer. It claims a plug stays dry and crumbles bark only in fine air, while approaching rain makes it damp and pliable. The passage mocks standard remedies for wounds with a mention of court-plaster.
A lyrical century poem speaks of a rose as a symbol of love. The speaker notes pale light and fireflies in a summer meadow while cherishing a beloved who has endangered the heart. The rose becomes a beacon of devotion and fate.
Refugio Garfias loves Antonio Mascavel despite his bad character and gambling. Senor Garfias seeks guidance from Senor Vejar as Lola jealously schemes for power and wealth to secure Refugio. Amid families and suitors from California towns, Refugio faces a choice between love and social pressure in early Los Angeles.
In a moonlit Cantina settlement Vejar and his sister Lola shelter a stranded American youth. Lola schemes with Mascayel to seize his money and secure a future through marriage. Lola confesses to killing the man, Vejar disposes of the body, and Mascayel buries the crime as Lola schemes for wealth. The tale ends with Mascayel’s later fortune and Lola’s long path to a settled life with Refugio.
Report on Cuban women aiding insurgents under Weyler with daring acts, from disguise to supplying food and dynamite. Also notes a dog Zulu earning a silver medal for alerting a fire threat and saving a home, plus light items on a hospital surgeon, a tiny writing machine, a Porto Rico joke, and Nile rises.
A wartime fashion shift features a new military girl type with bold posture and disciplined movements. She salutes, walks with a firm stride, speaks in military phrases, and adopts commands like "Report to headquarters" and "Forward, march" in daily life.
Gen Wesley Merritt has won the heart of Laura Williams of Chicago. The engagement to take place on his return from the Philippines was announced recently. Miss Williams, about 20, is tall and slender with light hair and complexion. She enjoys horseback riding, bicycling, golf, and outdoor sports and is wealthy. She is the granddaughter of the late John D. Caton and heiress to a large fortune. Her father Norman Williams helped form the Chicago Telephone Company and the Hastern Electric Company and drew up the papers forming the Pullman Palace Car Company.
A Hartford Courant opinion piece catalogs many terms for moving pictures and their origins. It notes Laura Williams as delegate to a Paris exposition in 1882 and comments on age disparity between Gen Merritt and his betrothed while praising genuine effort and a playful linguistic contest among fifty invented names for photographic technology.
The article describes an early concept of an electric pipe organ where circuits operated magnetic coils to control air valves and organ stops via switches above the keyboard. It notes such keys, made of bronze and iron, found in Greece and Italy dating to at least the seventh century before Obriat.
A scrambled 19th century collage notes diverse tidbits: tobacco varieties, a Chinaman’s meat intake, Berlin bootblacks, Greece’s number of newspapers, Kaffir religion practices, an Indian spider-eating fly, ancient silver coin aromas, a mosaic Jerusalem map, Jordan River length, Massachusetts funding for a dome, bicycle material use, life expectancy highlights, free admission to Holyrood, New York anti-opium push, public calls for decency in transit, Lea and Perrin fortunes from Worcestershire sauce, a Westphalia public school’s 1100th anniversary, a St Paul gymnasium origins, depopulation fears in France, and a Paris recruit boasting about being the thirty-fourth son.
A handsome young chief of a French government bureau confronts female clerks who swarm his office with complaints and gossip. After reading a list of accusations to the staff he urges self correction to shape a model bureau. The clerk row unsettles the room as women quarrel among themselves. Ex-Senator Cerro Gordo Williams is dying at his Mount Sterling home in Kentucky.
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.