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 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1948
Page
5
BOAC Montreal analysis department compiles detailed fuel and performance charts for North Atlantic routes. Engineers study wind, fuel load, delays, and weather to reduce bumps, save payload, and improve overall service across all routes.
New York millinery preview shows sea theme influencing women's hats. Colors include storm green ocean spray and driftwood with shells and ship prow shapes. Techniques feature high crowns, gull feather accents, and pale aqua chiffon to evoke sea spray. Sicily lemons noted in brief.
The University of Illinois will test a theory using 40 monkeys in tight corsets to study potential ulcers. Two men and two women will undergo the tests before the animals arrive, according to vice president Andrew Ivy.
A collage of short items and reflections covers marriage from famed athletes to civic curiosities. It mentions Euripides and divorce, a 76 year old London wedding, an 87 year old bride in Ireland, Art Shafer, Scotch whisky exports and founders, and Texas Wesleyan University’s professor of personality Hazel Hunnicutt.
University of Washington scientists and the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service express surprise at tuna appearing in deep ocean waters off southeastern Alaska. They note tuna may have been present but unseen, discuss possible northward movement due to currents, and mention ongoing studies funded with a million dollars.
A dead brown snake was found at Benjeroop near Swan Hill Victoria with its head and about a foot of body protruding from its hole. W Davey of Benjeroop dug out the body and found the snake strangled in a tight knot just below the ground. The snake had likely tucked its head through its coils and tightened the death knot as it struggled.
In Hillsboro Wisconsin at St Aloysius church the wedding of Raymond Fischa and Lillian Machovec was interrupted when the bride fainted twice and was carried out by the groom each time. The ceremony continued and the couple wed on her third trip to the altar.
Brantford reports Cyril A. Baker after 22 months in Saudi Arabia says inflation hits the marriage market. He notes a wife can cost about $50 if not fussy, but Baker returned to marry Mary Henderson.
In Buffalo New York French physician Dr Marcel Bessis described an exchange blood transfusion trial on 180 adults with Nephritis. Ten quarts of healthy donor blood are circulated to swap out the patient’s blood achieving about a 90 percent success in aiding kidney function while offering limited leukemia improvement but not a cure.
Helen Keller, 68, vows to retire from public life to reconstruct the biography of Anne Sullivan after the manuscript was destroyed by fire. Her life has long inspired the world with perseverance despite blindness and deafness, and her latest resolve reflects the same steadfast spirit.
The tomb of Cheops, the Great Pyramid, was originally 482 feet tall, according to the report.
The Belgian Congo releases a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of its main railway line. The note contrasts modern Leopoldville with prior stamp subjects, tracing Congo philately from King Leopold I profiles to scenic and native life issues through 1942.
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.