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 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
8
The article explains using sand and gravel from pits and crushed rock with Portland cement to build durable concrete roads. It covers aggregate selection grading, mixing ratios, construction steps, jointing, curing, and cross-section shoulders, emphasizing local deposits and economical benefits.
The speaker urges thoughtful consideration of road improvement rather than fault finding with the overseer during travels on a poor road and suggests constructive approaches to better travel conditions.
Beginners in the poultry business tend to neglect stock when not yielding returns and fail to foresee future consequences. Constant care, good feeding, and fresh water are essential from hatch to laying house.
A request ad invites sending 10 cents to this paper to obtain the pattern. Include name and address plainly and indicate the desired pattern number.
Pattern 6079 offers a Scoted plaid or plain Berge dress with yoke cuffs and a five gore skirt and side front plaits with a back inverted pleat. Sized to 12 years, medium requires 2 1/2 yards 36 inch fabric and 3/4 yard contrasting material. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address and size.
A fragment quotes James Freeman Clark praising books for hope courage beauty and healing. It shifts to a scene where a weary traveler asks for food and rest in a house, and a sharp householder retorts with a brief, biting remark about the traveler’s plea.
In a curious exchange, a fortune teller asserts she is the seventy seventh daughter of a seven ty seventh son making a bold claim about her rare birthright and abilities.
The Nauen wireless station reports a reader in Vienna and other cities understood from a newspaper at distances up to 485 miles. Complaints about loud readings appeared at times.
A humorous survey notes how cultures vary in boiling eggs. The English and French favor three minutes with dipping and seasoning. Spaniards favor one minute with contents poured into a glass. Italians boil to the edge, German and American styles differ.
A Missouri woman recounts a five year battle with scalp eczema declining after using Cuticura Ointment and Soap, noting relief from severe itching and hair regrowth. The testimonial promotes Cuticura products and invites blanks for a free sample.
A quirky snippet parodies products like Red Crags Ball Blue and LEWIS' cigars while noting a birthday party and an anniversary joke. It mentions a Hale party and an eleventh anniversary tied to a wife's twenty fifth birthday, with characters Hicks and Ricks.
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.