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 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
4
A country paper piece urges readers to spend Christmas at home with family, recalling rural virtues, hospitality, and old memories. In a separate tale, a streetcar wreck near a curve prompts conductor Worper to save passengers, earning praise and a banker’s $2100 check from grateful riders.
Hooly streets brim with Christmas shoppers as a crowded Panay streetcar ferries riders home for the holiday. Motorman Charlie Wemper, new to the board, struggles with modest pay and a starving home life while navigating a white city rail line. He fights for control as the car glides toward the country, amid snow and hopeful cheer.
A dramatic train of events unfolds as two rivals speed through a darkened area, nearly colliding within feet of each other. A sub-station tender stops the machinery, and a frantic Wemper joins the other car’s vestibule before calm returns on the Main Line. A Christmas for the wee ones on the way.
In Servia Christmas Eve is marked by a family ritual beginning with a father felling a straight young oak to obtain meat, then presenting gifts after a ritual blessing. The tree stays on the coals until Christmas morning, when it is saluted with repeated plate clinks. The national dish is pork and the poorest families scrimp to buy a pig for Christmas.
A bustling merchant quips that Christmas comes only once a year while an old man with many grandchildren agrees heartily. The scene shifts to a child named Beasie writing a letter to Santa Claus, then hesitates about giving it to his father to mail.
Delilah Falla, freed on Gov Cummins parole after twenty years for a murder, was found bound and gagged in a benefactor’s bathroom. She later confessed to the crime and led investigators to stolen silverware treasure, with suspicion of a relationship with ex-convict Frank Bani. Parole revoked. Bani faces possible charges.
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.