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 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1879
Page
7
A religious meditation discusses truthfulness as a core duty, aligning personal virtue with divine law. It argues genuine life mirrors principle, and hypocrisy would ruin society, noting the mission’s Chinese stations and growth to seventy stations with 2,200 converts by 1879.
Dr W S Caldwell and Mrs Caldwell returned to Warren after two years abroad and were feted at Masonic Hall with songs by the Eagle Band and speeches praising his career. In Galena the Jo Daviess County Bar met May 2 to form a judicial convention plan to nominate circuit judges and appoint delegates from each county.
A historical sketch describes a Presbyterian missionary and converts in Pechula with congregations formed, and a tale of Chinese evangelism intertwined with a Welsh coast Sabbath scene. The account includes a trader’s surrender to oppression, a drowning sailor’s hymn, and moral reflections on shining light. It ends with music offerings from Oliver Ditson & Co and selections from opera, vaquero and tango piano pieces.
A miserable man in York enters a grocer seeking bread. He confesses he suffered poverty after neglecting and resenting his widowed mother, proving that disobedience brings misfortune as a warning to children.
Town Board unanimously appoints H. O. Van Brocklin as Commissioner of Highways to fill the vacancy. District schools have started the summer term with teachers listed for Districts No. 1 and No. 2 and the Centennial and Yellow Creek locations. Farmers finish corn planting as favorable weather improves ground conditions compared with last year.
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.