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 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
8
The text outlines wedding planning norms such as ceremony timing, party roles, and guest seating, detailing bride and groom responsibilities, gifts, and costs. It also includes narrative passages about Helen and Warren dealing with family dynamics and social expectations surrounding weddings and dinners.
A reader recalls overhearing strangers debate who Beatrice Fairfax is, a discussion revealing perceptions of gender and identity. The essay follows Beatrice’s fictional persona and a couple’s nerves before a social event, ending with a tender moment as the man comforts the anxious woman.
A fragmentary verse recalls a twilight sound of mermaid and sea. The speaker listens across wind bent fields as bracken and poppies sway, hoping for a vision of a mystical presence and the lingering twilight song.
The piece explains that using blue water for window cleaning helps windows retain brightness and polish better. It also notes cleaning with skim milk on front steps keeps them whiter and slower to tarnish.
A speaker compares English working class women with French Swiss and German women, arguing the latter are thriftier, cleaner, and more economical in dress and cooking. He cites cost of living, education, and fewer class distinctions, noting English women could learn from continental practices while observing English habits and landladies’ reactions to frugality.
The article recommends washing windows on a dull day to avoid streaks, dusting interior woodwork first, washing glass with worn water and no soap, using a pointed stick and cloth to clean corners, wiping dry with soft cotton, and finishing with tissue paper or old newspaper for brighter panes in half the usual time.
Noting expert advice on oyster preparations from shell serving with lemon juice to cocktails and sauces. Includes recipe style steps for frying scalloped roasted and macaroni dishes, plus stuffing for turkey and marinated salad method with oyster pieces and lettuce garnish.
The piece explains how visiting cards indicate entertainment details for winter social calls. It covers at home afternoons with times, simple teas, and formal events like bridge, noting when an RSVP is required and how to respond with a card or visit.
Damaged wallpapers can be repaired with watercolor paints to be almost invisible when viewed from a distance. Use mixed colors from a child's paint set to match shades, then touch in the missing pattern to restore the look.
Practical tips cover extending stockings with paraffin, using tweezers to tidy threads, whipping buttonholes before cutting, removing wallpaper marks with lemon, wearing a pilecloth apron while washing, and joining soap bars by softening with warm water for a solid cake with no waste.
Curtains by Bobinet used widely this season in parlors dining rooms libraries and bedrooms with lace decorations newer than Renaissance. Imitation Brussels lace offers good designs for little money and is hard to distinguish from the real. Nottingham curtains appear beautiful in various grades while colored curtains like madras are favored for summer use and colored Nottingham gains appeal in brown tones on tan.
A boarding house serves elderberry pie highlighting the fruit’s natural flavor with minimal spices. Some cooks add a touch of clove cinnamon and lemon peel to enhance the dessert.
Fashion guidance emphasizes matching waists with colored blouses, creating three piece looks. It notes favored waist fabrics such as chiffon, marquisette, voile, and net, with colors including navy, seal, golden brown, green, and black accents. Lace, embroidery, and white linings appear in stylish ensembles.
Outing hats fashioned from soft beaver in darker shades appear in fashion. They feature a crushable soft crown and moderately wide brims stiffened by stitching, with pliable edges. Paired with long chiffon veils, they suit motoring and other outdoor use.
Guidance on travel pillows detailing sizes up to 15 by 12 inches, fills such as hair lavender or pine needles, and multiple covers for day and night use. Describes embroidery options, monograms, dye choices, and finishing touches for travel pillows. The text notes many people are fastidious about pillows.
Practical tips from the Vortlind Oregonian on kitchen and household care. Wash dishes with cold water to prevent flour from sticking, clean breadboards with a slanted knife following wood grain, and rinse away grease from iron sinks. Boil severely stained pots in soda water, rub with a metal dishwasher, and dry promptly. Tin pans gain gloss from boiling soda water, furniture cleaned with vinegar and oil, then dried and polished. A little elbow grease helps.
A separate storeroom should be light dry and cool with three or four shelves for proper placement of supplies. The lowest shelf should be at least three feet from the floor and no fish allowed except canned varieties.
The article surveys upcoming fur fashion trends noting higher prices due to endangered fur sources. Sable silver fox chinchilla and black fox are highlighted, with furs dyed to expand wardrobe options. Muffs grow larger. stoles yield to long scarves. satin pillows. embroidery and chiffon linings appear. Coats stay full length with new side openings. trims include ermine sable marten and opossum. Fur sets unite with braiding and Viennese ornament.
The writing argues life requires work and self discipline to develop character and manhood. It warns against seeking ease and wealth without duty, stating that trials forge strength while endless sunshine deserts life. It urges embracing hardship to reach a larger life and lasting fulfillment.
A string of darkly humorous jokes and quips from a New York politician, gaffes about orphans, crooks, and misheard lines. Bits feature a jokey exchange on gambling brothers, mumps and measles, crockery, and an aviator who shot himself. A New surgeon son’s progress is noted after his tenth operation.
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.