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 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1907
Page
2
The piece argues telephones form a natural monopoly and communities face franchise choices. It weighs competing systems' effects on rates and service, noting dual systems can bring temporary losses but potential long term gains, while rivalry may merely split users or raise access costs.
A modest visitor named Mr Bryce travels incog to Boston two years after his last trip. He sailed without his name on the list with Mrs Bryce, asking locals about American life. His hosts later discover he authored The American Commonwealth and felt surprised by his knowledge.
In Bejar near Salamanca Spain a strange modern event unfolds as the town’s 9,000 residents, including men women and children, seek to abandon the industrial town by dispersing to South American republics. Once a cloth trade center with 22,000 people fifty years ago, Bejar has declined into a fleeing community.
Count Prosper d Epinay, decorated in Paris by the British ambassador with the Victorian Order, is described as both a British subject and a Frenchman. Born 65 years ago on Mauritius, he is treated as French by his parents and France, yet born under the British flag makes him a British subject.
Rev Dr Andrey Watson, long time missionary, sails again for Egypt refusing furlough. He is the father of Rev Dr Charles R Watson, secretary of the United Presbyterian board of foreign missions. The son and father both serve in the same mission field.
Des Moines reports a string of local tragedies and incidents. Anna Baker-White dies at 1246 Thirteenth Street as family mourns. Fire alarms save the Great Western yard thanks to a faithful dog named Rusty. Edward Lemke, a reclusive Webster City figure, moves to Des Moines with his daughter after a near-starvation ordeal. Several transport and rail incidents injure workers and reveal coal field activity in Des Moines. A wedding trip mishap, drownings, suicides, weapon accidents, and a broad sweep of regional crime and legal events fill the page with grim daily detail.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified at the Thaw trial recounting her life with Stanford White and alleged plots to harm her husband, while other items cover rabies among Wisconsin sheep, railroad strikes, bank robberies, naval promotions, fires, and multiple international incidents. The summary blends court testimony with a wide range of 1906-era reports from the United States and abroad.
The house completed and passed the river and harbor appropriation bill with more than 83 million dollars and sundry amendments from chairman Mr. Burton of Ohio. The 14 foot Mississippi channel proposal from Chicago to St Louis and the gulf was defeated in committee of the whole. Former Sergeant Fraser said colored troops were unpopular in Brownsville and that shooting may be a local plot to remove them. The senate approved an army appropriation bill of 81.6 million dollars though an amendment allowing reduced rates on army supplies and transport for officers and enlisted men was defeated.
Public hearing before the senate agriculture committee considered grazing land policy in the public domain and the interests of large and small cattlemen and sheepmen, plus the impact of stock protection on homesteaders.
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.