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 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
7
The Educational Department of the Y M C A issues a pamphlet outlining six schools: Business, College Preparatory, Boys’ Elementary Grades, Technical Trades, Special Courses, and Lecture Courses. Courses include bookkeeping shorthand carpentry plumbing sheet metal work and more. Day school starts September 5 and night school September 25.
The Forth bridge can sustain a horizontal pull of 10 000 tons on its chief spans and a total base weight of 100 000 tons. Engineers claim that even half a dozen ironclads could be hung from the structure without undue strain.
A crosseyed man in a street car turned to bow to a friend entering the car and sparked a wave of bowing from nearly every passenger.
A housekeeper can reduce drudgery by simple, systematic kitchen arrangement. Keep each item in its own place with separate shelves for spices cereals and utensils. Maintain a clear kitchen table and pre-scrape and pre-pack dishes to save time and labor.
A vintage recipe snippet describes Cocoanut Cake using eggs sugar butter milk flour baking powder lemon juice and zest with boiled icing and grated coconut. Also details Corn Starch Pudding with milk corn starch sugar eggs vanilla and a custard topping served with cream or yolk custard.
Scrape and slice carrots to measure a quart. Boil with one teaspoon salt in water for 15 minutes. Cook onion in butter five minutes, add carrots sugar salt white pepper then 10 minutes over heat. Add stock simmer 30 minutes. Finish with parsley and adjust seasoning before serving.
Practical household tips on drying wet shoes with paper and serving milk toast from a hot cream milk in a covered pitcher to keep toast dry. Woolen blankets should be packed in boxes with newspapers and tightly wrapped to shield against moths.
A historical recipe lists Jordan almonds Vienna flour yeast sugar and saffron. Blanch and pound almonds into a paste then blend with milk to form a dough. Simmer the mixture, strain to separate milk, roll into small portions, and top with blanched chopped almonds.
A recipe describes capping eggs with butter in cups, seasoning with parsley pepper and salt, adding crumbs, then gently boiling in water for about five minutes and serving on buttered toast.
Mixed jelly recipe directions include making lemon jelly and adding banana slices, English walnuts, green grapes, orange pieces, and figs before chilling. Serve with cream.
A Civil War veteran George W. Atchley from Des Moines Iowa writes a testimonial praising Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root for kidney and bladder troubles. Notary A R Hansen confirms the witness and sale of the product. Letter asks readers to request a sample and booklet from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. Drug store price to fifty cents and one dollar.
Sample boxes of tomatoes packed in peat and sawdust were dispatched from Toronto to Covent Garden. Officials foresee a brisk trade between England and Ontario as demand for the vegetable grows. Also noted is a quotation from a Washington Herald exchange about remarriage and tobacco coupons.
Churches near Glasgow faced a power outage during a thunderstorm on a Sunday night. A minister had read the opening lines of a hymn when the lights failed, leaving the building in darkness for about fifteen minutes.
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.