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 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1910
Page
3
An officer in the Philippine Insurrection parties brews punch on a birthday. He awakens a lieutenant who refuses to switch bunks, saying I’m a first tenant and I get lower one. The humor rests on rank and berth privileges aboard a frontier garrison.
A poem in a mourning tone contrasts grief and resilience. It counsels letting sorrow pass and finding strength in the divine, suggesting the guiding force of poetry to bear loss. The speaker notes silence and pall as perhaps acts of kindness, praising endurance through faith and memory.
Carter known as the Honkifig sat in a cage between two lions at Lon goon stage door as bailiffs approached. Ducrow directed officials to enter but Carter opened the door and roared back, causing the bailiffs to retreat terrified to the street.
An editor recounted a New York City Sunday school tale where a hungry girl used a silver dollar, and a boy guessed a basket as the first purchase. The examiner rewarded with a quarter, and the boy cited a dream of a prior city visit as the reason. Harper’s Magazine also recalls Sam Reed’s buy of a Hamilton print.
A Rochester businessman bragged about his bright office boy and posted a shop window offer: Roy wanted about fourteen years. A boy aged about fourteen read the notice and humorously warned he might not keep the job for the full term.
Little Howard visits another dig crying after a run in with a sheep that buttled him. His auntie asks what he did, and he replies he did nothing as the sheep knocked him down while he was getting tat the tase.
In a New York cafe Jim Corbett and John W. Bratton among others recount the Reno fight. Claffy is tricked with hot sauce in his beer, gulping the fiery mix in front of them. The tale closes with a quip about Peter Maher as the scene ends, per the New York World.
After a Drury Lane dinner hosted by Stephen Price, all guests except Theodore Oak and the Rev Edward Cannon stayed on. Price, a gout sufferer, slipped away while others talked. The next morning he asked his servant when the others departed, learning they had only rung for coffee.
A captain recalls a diary kept by a young woman on her first voyage abroad. She compares the voyage to a Mark Twain style record, noting attempts to stay on deck during a fierce channel crossing and the relief of keeping a parasol upright amid the storm.
Members of a Frankfort boat club resolved to row to Mayence by night. They set out at midnight, enjoyed the quiet river and gloom, but woke at sunrise to find they had forgotten to weigh anchor and remained stuck to the starting float. They are now known throughout Frankfurt as "the Explorers."
A Philadelphia social worker visits a woman whose husband left on a spree. The worker wonders if the husband read the essays on life problems, but the woman explains the cause was not the book. She insists there is no need for worry.
A Welsh infant school uses signs to teach directions oblique horizontal and perpendicular. A bishop preaching notices pupils whispering and the teacher raises his hand upright to enforce silence, prompting most of the school to shout perpendicular amid the sermon.
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.