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 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1892
Page
4
A fragmented 19th century newspaper page shows ad copy for patent medicines including Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Burlington pills. It references blood purification claims and liver cures, with promotional lines urging fair trials and money-back guarantees, plus scattered literary verse and personal notes.
Dolly Dart, a shy homebody in Canover, wins praise after secretly cooking gruel for Uncle Joshua. She earns a grand Christmas gift from Miss Amanda Bartow, a white silk gown, accessories, and a new social standing, signaling a dramatic turn from overlooked to celebrated in town.
Napier quotes the Duke of Wellington recounting a night at the Richmond ball on the 21st where he learned of French crossings and a clash with the Prussians. He notes delaying officers and Blucher’s approach, with the prince of Orange present and the Duke’s cautious insistence on not oversharing.
A young man with 81000 debated buying a candy store or a mortgage. An adviser urged practical business action, saying go rent a small place and make pickles to sell door to door. The tale ends with a warning that real profits come from doing what you can.
A fragmentary pamphlet warns farmers not to abandon the farm, extolling hard work and caution in prairie life. The text critiques pursuit of wealth, laments temper and intellect, and ends with a note about Hamburg fowl history and breed traits describing Golden Penciled Hamburgs with physical features and color.
The article notes early belief in spontaneous human combustion and cites French pamphlets describing cases with a light in the room and ignorant witnesses. It argues 72 percent of body water undermines the phenomenon and suggests alcohol saturation could explain burning, not spontaneous ignition.
The Boston Herald notes a faint pearly cone shaped light near the western sky after twilight. It describes a soft nebulous column rising from the horizon toward the Phoebeid region, identified as zodiacal light, also seen in the east before sunrise in September. Measurements cite base breadth from 0 to 9 degrees and apex distance from the horizon of 50 to 70 degrees.
A Brixton streetcar scene features a prettily dressed young woman and a man who mockingly teases her by buttoning her glove with a hairpin. The episode ends with the woman demanding payment, declaring she only pays two pennies for such service, while bystanders watch the exchange in stunned silence.
In a city hall corridor on the sixth floor a tearful scene unfolds before Magistrate Pole as a distressed woman pleads with a man, urging a new trial to avoid further abuse. A bystander warns, the couple leaves together with the man offering money, and the tense gathering grows.
A sensational narrative recounts Mrs Jennie Ray's alleged battle with womb cancer and a claimed cure by Warner's Date Cure. The piece praises doctors and séances while urging readers to contact Ray for interviews, presenting the story as a lamentable warning about medical quackery and despair.
A collage of humorous quotes and slips from a late era column includes a doctor debating poison in eyes, a misheard lesson about a shepherd and a coward, and a lament on medical treatments. It features Mrs Younglove, Algernon, Johnny and Mrs Partington alongside mentions of Hugo Stowell Brown and an Irish gutter remark about a funeral.
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.