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
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
11
A sequence of literary excerpts follows a wind poem and a long story of Mary Howard and Mr Dean in a hotel. The tale portrays romance, class, and a dramatic elevator incident, with a legal twist and a prairie journey ending in reflection about a horse named Bashaw.
The narrative recalls Bishop Whipple’s 1861 trek to the Sioux Mission at New Ulm Minnesota. He notes extreme cold and a looming storm. Louis Robert warns of harsh prairie travel with few houses and long distances between shelter. Whipple boots moccasins and pushes on, trusting routes and speed despite uncertain weather.
A grandfather recounts felling a hundred year old maple after a storm and salvaging lumber for future use. He notes the waste of letting logs rot and urges saving all timber, citing high market values for maple and other woods and describing how communities reclaim old logs for shingles and boards.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture reports poultry and eggs produced in the United States last year were worth more than the world’s gold and silver output for all but two years since 1260. He cites 1,096,000,000 dozen eggs produced and a national market value around 280 million dollars, with New York state leading in production and a 4 percent income potential touted for proper management.
Hackett purchases contested land and proposes shifting the fence to settle the dispute. The neighbor, initially ready to fight, relinquishes aim for land as a matter of principle, choosing peaceful coexistence over further conflict. The exchange highlights neighborly compromise over property lines.
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.