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
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1884
Page
2
Review discusses planting edible nut bearing trees such as chestnut walnut and butternut for shade and ornamental value. It notes these trees may be attractive and profitable through fruit and eventual timber demand, offering a potential revenue source for planters in Baltimore Market Journal.
Deacon seeks to reveal a life secret to Arstin aboard a ship. He fetches a preserved old newspaper from a leather case, showing a February 1840 London Gazette clipping, hinting at a dark past and a vow of secrecy as tension builds between the two men.
The passage notes theRis safety is abandoned and the ship is overdue after leaving Sydney on December 31 1888 with a wool cargo and twenty thousand sovereigns. Sixty souls were aboard ten first class and nineteen average passengers and the vessel signalled by the New Zealand bark Emily four days out with no further word.
Deacon recounts a perilous voyage in the Royal Oak from Sydney to a Pacific wreck. A storm, loss of crew, and a buried treasure drive him and Tommy Leech to a desert island. They bury twenty thousand sovereigns and gold bars, vow secrecy, then survive by landing stores and plotting a possible return to England. The tale ends with plans to seize a brig and reclaim the fortune, pending further actions.
The narrator faces a sharp test from the captain who questions his fitness and wages. He must prove ability to take sights with a sextant and endure strict discipline aboard the brig Windward as tensions with Banyard rise. Old Windward watches and hints at looming unrest.
Two Detroit men touring a town with a allegedly valuable pig staged a weigh in scam. The innkeeper and locals caught on when the pig weighed 174 pounds after a late feeding, turning the crowd into a chorus of jeers as money and wallets were cast aside in mock anger.
A British Medical Journal note reports M. Delaunay of Paris studied which side people cross when seated. Dogs such as terriers and poodles cross the right over the left while Chinese and Japanese cross the left over the right. Europeans and Calmucks lean rightward. Infants under eight tend to cross the left arm over the right, with older children preferring the opposite. Robust children cross the right arm over the left and lean left when crossing right over left. Arabs cross right over left like Europeans.
A captain rushed to sober up his crew at Sailor Sallys after seven sailors were found drunk. One by one they were placed in the water cask. each man emerged sober within minutes and returned to work singing and hooting at the ropes.
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.