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 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1939
Page
1
The Harper Herald lists Mareth Diesel as owner and publisher with weekly Friday issues. Advertising solicitors include Mr and Mrs C W Granville and subscription collectors, with a yearly rate of 1.50.
Betty rides with Ellery Aiken to a cheap night club where fear grows as Ellery drinks heavily and drags her into danger. After a chaotic drive and a street collision, a doctor finds a frightened Betty and takes her home, begging her to tell no one.
The article highlights industrial design as a rising profession influencing daily life from skids to skyscrapers. It features a CosmoPolitan June piece profiling a designer's story in Autobiography of America and notes three key qualifications for success: practical artistic sense, applied science knowledge, or a flair for original ideas.
If every carload of sugar sold in America last year had been packed in cotton bags, the cotton consumed would have given a day's work to nearly ten million people, or one third of a year's work to 100,000 people. National Cotton Week is a major event looking toward increased cotton consumption.
A critical portrait describes a man who grows cotton using fertilizer from paper sacks, harvests in burlap, bales in jute, buys rayon clothes for his family, and then questions why his cotton yields are so disappointing.
The passage guides readers to first craft a working mental state by recalling past successes and recreating that steady confident feeling. It instructs maintaining the mood as a working frame, then beginning with energy release, pushing through fatigue, and concluding with relaxation and joy in practice.
Louis Porter, rivaling Rodgers and Hart as a top musical comedy creator, says multiple hit songs in a show dilute success. He prefers one standout tune that remains fresh even after frequent public release, arguing it sustains audience interest.
The piece notes hit tunes in production and radio impact of Begin the Beguine and My Heart Belongs to Daddy, with Porter and Mary Martin highlighted. It covers Viennese Strauss nostalgia at an April Ritz event, and a Henry Hadley Foundation contest offering 500 dollars for an orchestral work by American composers.
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.