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
Sep 15, 1880
Page
8
A collection of quips and tips on manners humor and household tricks. Includes remarks on honesty fortune and national quirks. Features notes on transport telegraphs postal experiments cat couriers and practical how to ideas for carpets lip salve and preserving flowers.
The piece recalls how northern farmers once grew most food, raised wool and flax, and bred for self sufficiency with limited cash use. It notes transportation limits, coastal markets, and rising opportunities for diverse specialties as rails improve. It ends with a humorous store anecdote about buttons.
A Bethany Ontario witness extols Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a cure for ear disease and other ailments, claiming rapid relief and full hearing restoration after months of deafness. The piece also notes a Presbyterian church hymn service disrupted when an organ pump failed, producing toot-toot sounds as the choir improvised.
Count y Urcel reports meeting an insect in Bolivia, Peru and nearby areas that, after death, becomes a plant. The creature is a thick hard grub with clear joints. Before dying it buries itself, expands underground like a potato, then grows a stem that blooms blue flowers in spring.
Telegraphic notice from Toledo reports W. K. West Druggist states Day's Kidney Pad is widely used by leading locals and achieving remarkable cures, calling it the best kidney remedy sold in the area.
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.