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
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1894
Page
5
A detailed look at the sculpture process from modeling clay to marble or bronze. It covers armature with iron frames, wooden supports, and live-light rotation. tools like spatulas and fingers. drying, damp cloths, and glycerine use. the plaster cast stage with roundabout shellac and potato dust. sand molds, core placement, and bronze casting. and the chaser finishing the final piece.
A Berlin born baby living at 93 Bremen Street has spent much of its short life aboard steamships and trains, nearly circumnavigating the globe. Its father was Herman C. Liskeman, a German immigrant who died of typhoid after arriving in New York. The widow later married Captain John Bancroft, master of the Water Witch, who ferried the baby across oceans and continents, from Sydney to Liverpool, before settling the child with guardians near Los Angeles and later in Seattle. The child survived a train wreck near Salt Lake City and has continued to travel with Bancroft’s ships, now under guardianship in this city.
This year saw a large emigration of Scandinavian citizens from New York to their homelands across the sea. The exodus rivals all prior years, with most migrants from New England and the Western farms. Hard times push them to cheaper life abroad, roughly half the cost of staying.
A rare family event near Leamington England marks the coming of age of triplets who survived infancy. Historical note recalls that most triplets die early, with an exceptional record of quadruplets. The report links to a Great Counter Attraction and a Sunday School joke about birds nests from Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ETCHINGS AND ECHOES notes the Peter the Great statue at St Petersburg weighs about 1100 tons. It mentions gas meter tricks in Wheeling, Miss A M Hicks’s dismissal from Clinton College, Kentucky, and a London sun eclipse unlikely before the 22nd century. It covers Ceylon tea exports rising, Louisiana legal business bans, a Sandy Hook fog siren anecdote, the Benbow battleship's sale and breakup, R J Grosse’s German trademark for a toluol thermometer, and the merits of toluol as a mercury substitute.
A jumble of quoted lines and stray notes appears from a historical newspaper page. It mixes conversations about self made men and stock concerns with migrants and stage settings. It also includes stray statistics, a medical European treatment tale, and a few dated cultural rifle shots.
A collage of small verse and ad snippets from a Parkersburg dealer ad and Newport reception shows a milk serving scene on a lawn. A Paintsville Kentucky girl Helen Witten reportedly eloped with her lover after her parents opposed the match. An old joke exchange, wartime style quips, and an agricultural seed offer from John A. Salter Seed Co. round out the page’s light miscellany.
Drought in Argentina has killed 200000 cattle 150000 sheep and 20000 horses. Aluminum is used as a substitute for leather in boot heels. Mandolins once imported are now largely home made. Fifteen years ago no US telephone exchange. now about 1400 exchanges employ 10000 people serving nearly 250000 subscribers. Mississippi ships tomatoes to St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Philadelphia New York and Boston. Coal tar makes masonry water resistant in exposed positions. Chicago reports 300000 cases of cold storage eggs this year and New York is nearly as loaded. eggs kept cold to avert a glut in eastern markets.
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.