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 34 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1907
Page
7
The Minneapolis Journal reports on a dealer offering a cross worn under the skin and other painful implements. Sharp hair shirts, barbed belts, and hidden needles are marketed to devout believers and morbid religious enthusiasts.
The article debunks common beliefs about mosques noting that shoes need not be removed to enter if one wears boots, since floors are covered with clean mats. It also rejects the idea that Christians are barred from mosques, citing the Koran's stance that all may enter. It cites historic openness and mentions Eyab Mosque in Constantinople as an exception.
A description of microscopic discoveries shows insects in sand grains, mold forming a forest of trees, and many hidden details. It notes butterfly feathers, hair tubes, skin scales, and the vast number of pores covered by a single grain. It also mentions perspiration and microscopic creatures in drops of water.
The biographer notes Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar in his eighty first year during an October visit from Aldworth to Farringford. After dinner he showed the poem and called it the crown of his life. He described the Pilot as a divine unseen guide.
A mother asks how many acts of kindness her son Tommy has done and he recounts giving away items to help others. He notes he donated his mother's hat, a cook's shoes, and a lame shoestring seller's old black suit, illustrating his idea of doing good.
Cartoonish exchange from London Tit-Bits notes a photographer directing a subject to look pleasant while struggling with bowlegs. The man jokes about knees intruding on his smile, revealing comic tension between pose and natural expression.
A facetious father explains back to nature as a man lying under his motor car to see why it won’t go while the angel child jokes a man falling from a balloon. The quip appears in the St. Louis Republic’s humorous dialogue.
The excerpt argues that the core flaw in music lies in the need to reproduce artistic works through performance. It asserts that if reading music were as easy as appreciating poetry, Beethoven sonatas might rival Schiller poems in popularity.
A sententious quip in the New York Press contrasts a caller's praise of harmony with a jab about a rubber neck and an elastic cone. The brief exchange reflects a playful urban wit and civic musings.
A Plautus quote notes the law as a gloriously uncertain thing. The line reflects legal ambiguity and the playful, ironic view of jurisprudence.
A train wreck near Schenectady inspires Westinghouse to conceive the air brake. Westinghouse notes that if engineers could brake from the cab, the collision might have been prevented. The idea germinated amid wreckage, leading to a breakthrough that made the name famous.
In a cat tale a hawk swoops on a kitten, taking it from the grass at fifty feet. The kitten struggles fiercely twisting like a weasel, claws up, and after a dramatic midair scuffle the hawk drops its prey and the cat lands safely on the ground.
The New York Press reports a detective describes a humorous yet revealing method where thieves eat raw onions before visiting jewelers and haberdashers. The strong odor masks their movements as they study diamonds, leading to costly rings going missing by day’s end.
The Carriage Monthly outlines two techniques to imitate ebony. One uses black polish or varnish that fades at edges revealing lighter wood. The other soaks dense wood in logwood boilings and iron acetate solution to create a deep, durable black stain.
Henry McGook in Harper's suggests ants embody the dignity of labor with every member from new hatchlings to veterans contributing to the colony. The piece uses a meta metaphor to praise equal respect for all kinds of work.
A tombstone near Llanymynech Wales recalls huntsman John Morgan of the Tanatside harriers. He was slain not by a human hand but by a railway train while taking a shortcut along the Cambrian line, paying the capital penalty for the act.
A passage discusses how the largest church bells can be moved by a person or boy pulling ropes at proper regular intervals. It notes the immense weight and the need for decisive, periodical effort to generate motion that even the strongest man could not achieve unaided.
Harry Cressley a bartender is jailed in Clinton on impersonating an officer a crime with a year in jail. A local boy Pitnik is accused of stealing $7.50 from a lodging house fellow tenant and Cressley is charged with luring the boy to his home posing as a police officer and taking $10. He attempted to hide the gold piece after arrest but was caught.
A terse, incomplete reflection argues that preaching to convert others from sin is futile if the preacher’s actions betray sincerity. The speaker likens hypocritical appearance to a failed advertisement for faith and questions its persuasive power.
Local advertisement notes Fritz and Droz offering binding twine for construction or tying tasks. Includes a catalog-like line with price range or stock note dated 15 41, suggesting a historical pricing line or listing. Could reflect a shop catalog blurb from mid 20th century.
The account recalls Wellington banning umbrellas in battle to keep officers and guards from appearing unduly decorative. He warned Lord Wellington does not approve of the use of umbrellas during enemy fire and would not allow the Gentlemen's Sons to look ridiculous. The melee near Bayonne tested steadfastness amid rain.
A fashion customer at a major New York millinery shop discovered her missing hatpin after trying on a series of hats. She later found a pin concealed beneath artificial flowers in a $35 hat, revealing the cause of the earlier disappearance and tying the two shops’ wares together.
A hunter of African big game recounts lions avoiding meat such as swan and fowl despite giving them feathers and grain. He notes pigeons freely approach and even hop on the lions, which seem to tolerate or enjoy their presence, a puzzling behavior he cannot easily explain.
A sharp faced boy enters a Broadway tailor shop and hands over a lone button. The tailor asks what it is for. The boy replies to sew a pair of pants on the button to gain business, then hurries off down the street. New York Globe.
A boy asks if officials were beheaded and the reply says no the heads were cut off with a sharp move. The source reflects a cynical joke about politics and leadership in Baltimore.
A fragment notes a new railroad engineer and his assistant with hints about coal usage and past roles, mentioning a Brooklyn exile context and a former janitor. The lines imply scrutiny of a railway crew and a change in personnel.
A clergyman recalls a parishioner who accused him of stealing his sermon. The preacher confronts the man who refuses to retract until he checks his book at home and discovers the sermon is still there. The tale, from the St. Louis Republic, ends with the realization.
In a Toledo Blade excerpt a judge questions a lawyer about a prisoner charged with stealing fifty dollars. The judge declares the man will be punished enough by paying fifty now and earning another hundred later, hoping it deters dishonesty.
A Philadelphia Press passage frames a landlady and a boarder discussing meat consumption and cruelty. The landlady laments destroying the lamb for appetites while the boarder concedes the point, underscoring a tension between sympathy and sustenance.
In a courtroom exchange the prisoner requests the judge to regard the attorney's youth before sentencing. The line reflects concern over counsel's inexperience and the court’s consideration of mitigating factors.
A brief excerpt notes that facial expression and manner are the instant shorthand of the mind and are quickly read by observers. This reflection appears as a quote attributed to Success Magazine.
City of Fairfield Iowa adopts Ordinance No 94 amending Section 7 of Ordinance 62 Revised 1904. New sidewalk widths are set for multiple streets including Broadway East and West Burlington Washington Briggs Court Main and others with varied feet by block and side. Regulations cover construction and maintenance standards and specify widths from Main Street to the city limits.
Text shows an official amendment description noting street line changes from Burlingtogg to Broadway, with a 132 foot measurement in Section 3, effective after publication. Document signed by City Clerk TL WM. L LONG on July 1, 1907.
The Ottup Herald reports the Foster family mourns a July 1 death in Minn. Mary Foster Harrid, longtime member of End Presbyterian, died after heart trouble. Her passing shocked friends in East End where she worked for many years. Survivors include Mr. and Mrs. T. D. brothers Wil and Harry.
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.