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 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
4
A prank by Lemire Therieux at a Chambers' Journal play caused twenty friends and bystanders to sob in chorus. Therieux cried openly while a long handkerchief stretched through the row, prompting each person to mimic tears and pass the emotion along to ends of the cloth.
A vintage admonition on health and vice arguing that substances like whiskey tobacco coffee and tea dull the body and mind. It urges quitting habits when nature signals distress and promotes Postum as a healthier alternative with a slogan about finding well being and fortune through discipline.
A collage of light jokes and wry quips from various papers. Snippets include exchanges about changing a dollar, acting between towns, portrait requests, and playful barbs about ministers, cooks, and weddings. The items capture early 20th century humor and social banter.
A clipped excerpt shows Mr Kenner professing brief acquaintance and deep love to Miss Roxley, with Miss Roxley interrupting to claim the still fresh passion in a dramatic Philadelphia Press style.
The piece notes meteors could crash into ships, citing a 30 000 pound meteorite in South America and a 174 pound Yale fragment. An eyewitness recalls a burning sky and a brigantine struck by a bright meteor over the sea, leaving only wreckage and no vessel name recovered.
Sod houses offered the cheapest shelter for pioneers on the prairies. The article describes earth floors walls dug into the ground, sod and earth roofs, and a practical, if humble, West settlement style. It notes dangers from weather and animals but highlights warmth and frugality for hundreds of families.
An editor bursts into a sensational newsroom scene shouting Stop the press as a pressman discovers the Red Sea illustration printed in yellow ink. The exchange captures a chaotic moment in a newspaper office.
A clerk proposes a workaround to a shopper’s demand for elephant tusk jelly. He suggests telling the buyer the institution will offer a boarding house keeper and replace the hogsherd, hoping the customer changes her mind.
Good news from Bradford Tennessee reports a local man, J A Davis, praising Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney trouble. He says after several boxes he was completely cured and urges treatment at first symptoms to prevent Bright's Disease Dropsy Diabetes and rheumatic ailments.
A husky beggar swears to a fat pair of men that he has never asked for money before. They threaten violence with a lead pipe, claiming their fraud game to soak mugs and take what they want if payment is not rendered.
A person visits a fashionable oculist who prescribes glasses after a eye exam. The patient cannot proceed, replying there is no money left to buy the spectacles.
Misa Winnifred Ray of Wichita Kansas recounts long illness including stomach and liver upset nerve trouble and heart palpitations. After a year of suffering she used Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and improved within a week with continued recovery over six to seven weeks. She regained strength and can work again and endorses the remedy sold by druggists or Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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.