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 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
8
Shake Into Zour Shoeg view's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet it cures painful swollen smart toes and instantly eases corns burning. It provides relief for sweating callous hot tired nervous feet and fits new shoes easily. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. By mail 2 stamps free package address Allen Bigpimated Le Roy New York
A Philadelphia Bulletin style ad pitches CasCarets beauty pills to clear pimples blackheads and a bilious complexion by stimulating the liver. It promotes Carcarets at 10 cents with satisfaction guaranteed and mentions druggists. A stray line notes a prisoner seeking bail with crude reference to sponge puke.
The clunky excerpt advertises wheat at 40 cents a bushel and mentions Salzer's Red Cross with 80 bushels per acre for winter wheat rye oats and clovers. It references a farm seed catalogue with four cents postage and lists John A Balzer Red Co La Crosse Wis plus various marketing lines.
A historical wartime column praises Capt John W Philip of the Texas for Christian faith and leadership at Santiago Bay and in subsequent actions. It recalls his calm aboard the flagship during magazine explosions, his moral sayings to sailors, and contrasts with other naval legends, noting his birth in 1840 and long service across Civil War and overseas commands.
The article portrays Captain Philip’s deep faith aboard the battleship Texas amid ships’ misfortunes and superstition. It recounts a Sunday bombardment decision, a chaplain’s praise, and a string of early-erd, unlucky trials that preceded Philip’s command and the ship’s wartime reputation.
A New Madrid couple accuses hoodoo superstition of driving Hannah Gray, 53, to the city hospital en route to an asylum. The sheriff pursues her for theft of the family savings. Dr Sutter doubts the ailment is curable, calling it aggravated superstition. The case unfolds with her claim of hoodoo doctors and a years‑long belief in magic.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal shows a clerk declaring goods sold at a loss and a haughty lady declining gifts, saying she cannot accept gifts from a shopkeeper. The brief exchange captures a genteel social posture and commerce moment in a historical newspaper context.
A collection of quips and snippets from various papers. Dialogues range from mock romance and older suitors to social foibles and a jokey jet of provincial banter. Notes mention a European title wedding delay over a revenue stamp and a lawn mower observer on a city plaza.
A fifteen story bachelor apartment building is planned for the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty fifth Street in New York by the Matthew Byrnes estate at an estimated cost of 70,000 dollars. Matthew Byrnes, a builder who prospered, bought the plot in 1857 for 80,000 dollars. it is now valued at about 1,000,000 dollars.
An odd jumble of quack lines and product pitches appears. Claims of constitutional cures, cosmetic tonics, and careless misspellings mingle with aphorisms and pharmacist prompts. The text juxtaposes promotional phrases and unrelated quotes, resembling a garbled ad column from a historical newspaper page.
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.