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 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
2
A humorous line from the Philadelphia Record notes a hen’s cackle at an egg and a woman’s sneer at a secret, reflecting playful wordplay in a local paper.
An English military officer completes a global circumnavigation in forty days and nineteen hours. The feat highlights expanding human dominion as years pass.
The Hartford Courant notes railroads have invested heavily in new equipment but still cannot meet freight demand. Despite continual spending and record business, lines are strained and to their utmost efforts.
The Kansas City Journal reframes a farmer’s independence amid financial ease while Anita confronts loss, motherhood, and a stubborn heart. As a baby arrives and Mary’s care tests their friendship, Anita’s garden of grief yields to a powerful embrace of motherhood.
The New York Post notes a splendid gift to Harvard University of 2000 acres of valuable forest land near Petersham Massachusetts. The tract supports top timber and reinforces Harvard’s practical and theoretical forestry program alongside the Arnold Arboretum resources.
The New Orleans Picayune argues that long term shifts in sea and land levels have submerged and reemerged continents and islands in prehistoric times, and that today similarly immense forces under land and sea could trigger outbursts and disasters of planetary scale.
A coalition of Rhode Island leaders from major mills and factories forms a league to prevent tuberculosis spread among workers. The group funds sanitary engineers and doctors for inspections, supports affected employees, and educates operatives while organizing house-to-house district checks and family case tracking.
A fragment from the Baltimore Sun laments a mother's heart as a battlefield and sanctuary. The poet contrasts warfare and care, noting wounds, fears, and steadfast love guiding children. The piece blends warlike imagery with memory and devotion in a tribute to maternal resilience.
The article discusses how the moon appears larger when risen due to the atmospheric layer, notes a thicker atmospheric stratum at moonrise, and mentions the Eiffel Tower displaying electric numerals to show time in Paris once the experiments succeed.
The new sea wall at Galveston claims to be the most stupendous of its kind on earth. It stretches 17,593 feet, rises seventeen feet above mean low tide, sits sixteen feet wide at the base and five feet wide at the top, with a total cost of 1,200,000 dollars.
About seventy per cent of all the camphor made is used in the manufacture of celluloid. The statistic highlights camphor's key role in early plastics production and industry reliance on natural chemical supplies.
Stanford University listeners viewed seventy three apple species from a single tree in Luther Burbank's garden. The famed botanist balances public fascination with practical work, dedicating effort to improving crops with economic value.
A French inventor discovers and applies a gyro scope principle to aircraft, using rotary motion to maintain equilibrium and lift. The gyroplane stays balanced like a spinning top, with lateral motion achieved by tilting the craft as in birds of prey.
The battleship Kansas is fitted with a wireless telegraph outfit and the sending radius is reported to be about 500 miles.
The Manila American reports a Board of Foreign Affairs circular at Harbin bans foreigners from mining within thirty li about the railway without a special license. It notes existing mines will be assessed for output and taxation terms will follow once agreements with involved countries are set.
The Fairbanks Daily News notes Alaska laid on the U S map would reach from Savannah to Los Angeles and from Mexico to Canada. It highlights Alaska’s climate range is vast from Pacific warmth to Arctic cold, with mainland and islands varying from Kansas warmth to Duluth cold.
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.