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 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
3
A fashion note explains numerous variations of the one piece skirt this season. The featured design shows new drapery at the back right edge while the front remains plain. It suggests blas plaid as a handsome option and notes the optional separate frill finishing the upper edge.
A guide to holiday pies with decorative serving tips and several recipes. Cranberry Raisin Pie, Fruit Cream Pie and Caramel Pie are outlined with crust, fillings, and baking steps. Lemon Pie with meringue is described, including custard and topping methods for a traditional Christmas dessert.
The speaker reflects on losing a barber who had been pushing a half-ton bottle joke for years. Regret grows as the narrator contemplates starting anew with unwelcome woes. The exchange, attributed to Gyr Lange, hints at enduring literary wit amid change.
A simmer and a young man, posing as a traveler, dine alone in a Western hotel dining room. He misreads a waitress who reveals herself as Miss Effingham, a society woman cataloging life lessons. They realize they have never met, discuss past identities, and plan to write books about their experiences. The tale ends with mutual literary collaboration.
The fragment cites remarks on women and art from Richard Jefferies Napoleon Bonaparte and Emerson along with reflections on love and perception, noting that true artistry lies in nature and the voice of a woman, while hinting at timeless gendered observations.
This fragmentary item appears to urge readers to seek an original genuine product or document. Limited readable context prevents identifying the exact subject, organization, or date.
The article describes decorative handkerchief cases and boxes as ideal Christmas gifts for women travelers. It notes woven ribbon designs, satin ties, and pockets for handkerchiefs plus odds and ends, with durability and compact size. Other boxes feature embroidered birds or cherries, with ivory background and blue stitches. a civics exam joke closes the piece.
Practical tips from a veteran designer on maximizing small bedrooms. It covers removing mirrors from bureaus to free space, suspending a mirror with wire, raising the bureau with a cantilever, using curtains and bookshelves, concealing surfaces with fabric, and placing beds or couches near windows to improve light, airflow, and perceived room length. It also describes a compact trunk setup on casters and a hall bedroom layout to avoid crowding and achieve a balanced, functional look.
Instructs on stopping a leak and thickening soup into a paste with water. Mentions applying to a location described as viege and Jerage. Advises a visit and notes whether weather remains necessary. Includes garbled phrases about Barry Far and dows vequiira.
An odd dated fragment mentions Robinseson Bay and old main in a casual dialogue about tending buyers. The brief text references a December 4 date and a request for attention, with a nod to Tai Weiphia Press.
A literacy collage quotes fragmentary phrases from London Answers and Yonkers Statesman styled exchanges. The text features quirky exchanges about pity, mishaps with a clothes horse, a hound, a gas fixture, and meals, with oblique references to a doctor and a mother questioning a child.
A humorous exchange recounts an odd wedding mishap where a shoe was thrown through the carriage to strike Lin on the head. The shoe, it turns out, belonged to a horse, and the perpetrator could not be identified.
A man voices depression and inability to shake it, while his wife reminds him of a morning dental appointment at 10 o'clock. The exchange appears in a Boston Transcript snippet noting an engagement with the dentist on the morrow.
Fragmentary text indicates Glenwood Cemetery Beautiville site with priced offerings starting at $65.00. Mentions receipts from investments, vials perhaps, and a reference to 7 Throckmorton Broadway Long Branch with rental terms. Details are incomplete and unclear in the surviving 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.