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 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1878
Page
4
A Bombay correspondent describes Parsees, their wealth and charitable works, and the fire worship tradition. He tours the Towers of Silence with Mr. Cama, noting the restricted access, the two acre enclosure, and the circular towers where bodies are exposed to vultures. He details funeral timings and the ritual ablutions afterward.
The piece decries old highway practices that scrape dirt onto beds yearly, leaving roads rough and undrained. It urges better water courses, proper drainage, use of clean gravel, winter stone breaking, and avoiding soil scraping to produce smoother, drier roads. It cites English engineers on cleaning gravel and prefers exposing material to sun and frost.
The text notes horses prefer soft water and will refuse hard water. Hard water roughens a horse coat and can cause gripes. Pigeons avoid hard water. Minorca reports suggest hard water harms some animals, especially sheep. Racehorses often carry soft water to avoid losing condition when only hard water is available. Youatt cites horses seeking soft water and warns hard water can make coats stare and cause digestive upset.
A fragment list titled Twelve Good Rules claims to be written by Charles I. It includes directives such as avoid healths and long meals, refrain from touching state matters and secrets, avoid profaning divine ordinances, pick no quarrels, make no comparisons or ill opinions, keep good company, discourage vice, repeat no grievances, and lay no wagers.
A reader describes a cow with six months of bloating and vomiting coarse fodder, pondering gullet or stomac h disease with possible tubercle involvement. Advice includes trials with bismuth and iron powders and cautions on curability. The column also covers horse goiters, eye clouding, and general care including iodine treatment and proper feeding, plus a farm management note on small details and drainage.
An old agricultural note describes a cement and skimmed milk mixing method to paint a barn and says two quarts of cement plus two quarts of skim milk yield a light drab paint. It also praises placing chalk in calf pens to aid digestion and reduce acidity, referencing Rural New Yorker.
Risingham, a 21 year old Hambletonian stallion owned by Dr. James A. Schultz of Middletown New York, was shot and killed after a long history of ferocity. He had bitten, injured multiple keepers and killed three people outright. Five shots failed to stop him and Schultz died after being attacked. The doctor planned to dissect the stallion’s head and set up a skeleton in his office.
The Virginia City Chronicle reports Hung Lung and nine Mongolian players in a baseball game. They faced three batters at a time, fielders swapped positions, and pitching came overhead. Batting was weak but throwing fair, with expert catching and few overthrows observed. The game dates to 1442 with a fatal domestic incident cited.
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.