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
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1906
Page
4
A parent recalls a severely skin diseased child sufferings and daily bleeding. After trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the child's condition rapidly improved in ten days and fully healed over weeks. Promoter: F. Hohrath Company Bethlehem Pa June.
A milliner confronts a difficult customer over a hat adorned with birds. The purchaser insists the display should be hidden or altered, arguing the bird features are unsightly and the style must change. The tension escalates as the hat is ultimately removed.
John Coleman, a Swainsboro Georgia merchant, reports years of kidney trouble and backache ending after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He notes nervousness and sleep issues improved and lasting relief followed. Sold by all dealers at 65 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The piece recalls Prof Park a famed figure at Andover Seminary. It cites his sharp mind in Germany and anecdotes about his teaching style. It includes Tholuck’s remark and his habit of calling students by name with a pun on spelling Jones.
A Weston Massachusetts widow asks for a funeral on a pleasant day after Dr. Hunt inquires about burial timing. The anecdote highlights reliance on the Farmers' Almanac to choose a favorable date for the service.
A historical sketch of Lydia E. Pinkham born February 1819 in Massachusetts from a Quaker family. The narrative covers her early teaching, marriage to Isaac Pinkham, and rise with her vegetable compound. It notes how her remedies began in the home kitchen, expanded through pamphlets, and grew into a nationwide enterprise with records of women’s cases guiding future work.
A busy scene shows a woman preparing tea and cake while maids listen to her critique of ministers. She notes their late mornings and lack of schedules, praising ministers for consideration yet wishing they would stop loafing in bed. She claims to have worked forty seven places.
A historic coal strike anecdote recounts a child pleading for marrow bones to cook soup. Mrs Simpkins denies with a chain of neighborly exchanges naming Mrs Murphy and Mrs McDevitt, noting soup plans for Thursday if bones are returned promptly.
Rider Haggard recounts the premature obituary notice printed about him as a Hungary based ballet adaptation of She sparked disbelief. He sought program and photo requests but Hungarian manager and editors refused to run a contradiction, fearing free ad for the ballet.
An ad promotes Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers claiming immediate stomach relief by absorbing gases and fortifying gastric lining. It promises digestion aid and sweeter breath, urging readers to mail 75 cents for two boxes or request a free sample with a coupon.
This fragment cites Lake Titicaca as the highest navigable lake and sweeps through patent medicine claims. It touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken internally to reach the blood and mucous surfaces, claims prescription pedigree, and urges purchase from druggists for 50 cents per box. It also mentions Hall’s Family Pills and notes the invention of friction matches fifty years ago.
A vintage advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a cure for blood poison eruptions cancers and ulcers. It claims to heal sores remove poison from blood and stop pains with botanic ingredients and offers a $1 bottle price plus free sample by Blood Balm Co. Atlanta Georgia. It also references Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and other cures with druggist prices.
R G Dun weekly trade review notes quiet wholesale trade due to bad weather and holidays while clothing shows active orders for spring. Dry goods and sale items are formal, straw hats manufacturing remains busy, shoes stay in strong demand, leaf tobacco activity rises, holiday tobacco sales exceed expectations, and harness orders come in with uneven collections.
Baltimore wheat receipts total 16 093 bushels with 361 307 bushels in elevators and prices quoted for No 2 red at 85 cents. Southern wheat small bag lots sold up to 79 cents. Western wheat ease and spot quotes for January February and May futures given. Corn receipts 214 064 bushels with large stock in elevators and quiet Southern corn market. Oats and rye quotes listed with varying bids. Butter eggs and dressed poultry prices shown. New York flour and bread markets steady. Philadelphia grain prices steady. Chicago cattle and hog markets noted with price ranges.
Summary of various items notes Lord Roberts accepts presidency of the Soldiers' Christian Association. John M. Gerin, recently named United States senator from Oregon, is described as the poorest man in the Senate. Other items report theft of Pope Pius VII letters, U.S. wheat exports to Portugal, European orders for spinning wheels in Transvaal, the Khedive of Egypt’s habits, and Natal education by American missionaries.
A Brooklyn millionaire and his wife maintain a poverty era custom: she cuts his hair once a year after he visits a barber. He shaves himself and the wife recreates the cut for a year, recalling days of struggle and their childless, frugal life.
A traveling man notes how country hotel table manners vary by town. He recounts dining in a Connecticut hotel with pumpkin pie and the wait staff body language prompting a lesson in etiquette.
In spring 1902 a Michigan farmer describes a general breakdown and fear of consumption. He quits medicines and coffee, starts Grape Nuts with sugar and cream, and within six weeks regains flesh and strength, resumes housework, and remains well two years later. Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich.
Our practical book, Farmer's Guide, provides valuable crop raising facts and is among a series of books on successful fertilization offered free of cost or obligation to any farmer who writes for them.
A historical note recalls Adrian the Sixth as the sole Englishman to become pope. Born Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyherst in 1459, he led the papacy from 1522 to 1523 amid reformation debates and Catholic resistance.
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.