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
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
6
A jumble of 1891 quotes and anecdotes covers economics, crime, population, and law. It cites Hershey on women lifespans, Japan's flirtation penalty, colonial murder trends, and Quebec family land incentives. The text also critiques legal drafting, remarks on American wealth, and ends with a Texas printer ad seeking work.
A lyrical lament from E Nesbitt in Longman's Magazine. The speaker pledges devotion and lifelong sacrifice to a beloved muse, claiming all fame and battles belong to them. Despite absence and unspoken words, the beloved’s imagined presence inspires grand emotion and artistic vow.
The March 22 1820 pistol duel between James Barron and Stephen Decatur shaped U S naval history. Barron later remained in reserve while Decatur died that night after the exchange in Washington D C, with many officials present.
John Reardon a Will County farmer halted a Rock Island fast mail near Englewood by standing on tracks with a wagon. Police led by Captain Horace Elliott moved in to clear the obstruction. Reardon claimed the right of way and refused to move, delaying the train about two hours before compliance.
A Detroit boat works unit builds a submarine craft modeled like a double pointed cigar. It uses a storage battery for power and can submerge by a switch. The design was submitted to Secretary Whitney and nearly approved before Secretary Tracy halted work. The vessel is 40 feet long, 16 feet high, nine feet wide, built of 6 inch oak. It rises without ballast and moves by twin screw propellers on a movable bevel shaft. It can stay at any depth, reach about ten miles per hour, and rise if mechanical failure occurs. Air life supports two men for 24 hours with chemical purification. The inventor has funds to complete the boat.
A San Francisco Chronicle report notes a pale-faced Japanese vendor selling toy butterflies at two for 25 cents on Kearny Street. The simple mechanism uses tissue paper, bamboo, and an Archimedean screw propeller design to launch the butterfly thirty to forty feet before descent, while a sharp clerk captures them to prevent loss to street predation.
In a New York Weekly fragment a tailor named Lament draws notice as the first swell passes, while the second swell balks at trade and fears public contact, proposing to slip into a side street and hide in an alley.
Farmers advise wrapping tree stems with waste paper to deter rabbits and avoid heat absorption from tarred paper. The column also shares lawn care methods, gopher control recipes, manure handling tips, blinder concerns, and general farm and poultry guidance from multiple agricultural papers.
A Clark Street shoe dealer argues a plan to wear two pairs of shoes alternately, not two days in succession. He claims this halves wear, doubles life, and reduces cost, noting different pairs wear differently and give varied fit as they age. The piece illustrates shoe care.
A mix of domestic hacks and food science lightweight advice. Instructions cover repurposing old kid gloves into travel bags for silver and opera glasses, Westphalia ham curing process with a long brining and drying routine, and tests for alum in bread using a logwood solution and hot knife. It also notes U S bread consumption at about five and a half pounds per person weekly, totaling 17.16 billion pounds annually.
Three pounds veal with bread crumbs and eggs forms a loaf baked three hours in an earthen dish. Sponge cake uses sugar eggs water soda flour cream of tartar and lemon flavoring for moist results. Egg plant is salted pressed then fried after coating in flour and crumbs. Chicken broth simmers bones and meat three hours, skims, strains, and may include rice or tapioca for thickness.
A large Sixth Avenue firm relies on a window dresser to arrange goods with precise geometrical balance and color contrasts. Proper displays attract customers but exposure to sun and dust harms high grade stock. a New York merchand notes the tradeoff and the craft behind appealing windows.
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.