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 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1895
Page
4
A garbled 19th century advertisement fragment promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy. It mentions internal use and price, with odd misspellings and broken phrases about relief from nasal issues. The text reads like a paid medical claim from period newspapers.
An oblique reflection on misfortune and fortune shaping a man's path. The verse-like fragment hints at resilience amid hardship and the search for meaning in changing fortunes.
A narrator recalls trudging through a blustery storm as wind and snow chilled them to the bone. They recover indoors with a nurse tending, a family moment unfolds when the son reveals the nurse as their mother, and affection grows as warmth returns.
A charitable woman uses Lenten spare time to make tables for country houses. Tables are covered in linen with blue denim options trimmed in white braid and Delft-like tones. White linen versions with blue braid and tassels match coverings. Designs include palm pot tables with legs in plain or turned styles.
A column offers DIY tips including making a cement from common ingredients to fix broken china and using plaster to thicken a glue. It suggests flavors to improve beef tea and a method to remove surface spots with hot coals, plus toasted crackers with lemon zest, and a salmon sandwich filling with chopped salmon, mayo or similar, salt pepper and a drop of vinegar.
A Rochester landscape architect praises an over a hundred year old table shown in two cuts. The screw stand allows the top to raise or lower, the top measuring about fifteen inches square with a slightly raised edge. The piece is quaint and could be crafted with a lathe to work the screw portion.
A collage of kitchen tips and curiosities presents coffee making by fresh grounds and proper equipment, then shifts to light notes on babies and a pin-sticking machine. It mentions a coffee aroma loss, hot earthen pots, and careful serving with cream and sugar, followed by a wry aside on the cold tub shock for babies and a novelty patent for pin insertion in newspaper papers.
A Chicago Evening Post piece surveys royal and elite bedrooms describing Queen Victoria’s simple Beckingham palace room and Lillian Russell’s opulent bed beneath a sea of white and pink textures. It also notes Mrs Burton Harrison’s antique mahogany suite and other lavish touches plus a roundup of favorite gems among famous women like Patti Rockefeller Vanderbilt and Astor.
Sammy and Tommy clash over a new cart described as a beauty. Dick confirms it is a mail cart, not a she or it, while Chica directs to the Tribune.
Miss Sharpgirl cites brain benefits from fish, Canesucker declines fish eating, prompting Miss Sharpgirl to concede there may be something after all. Texas Siftings style humor suggests a light dispute over nutrition.
The page mix includes a love verse about morning brightness and devotion, plus a stray dialogue about a $5000 dog house and earnings from building it. Other items mention church etiquette, fashion penalties, and light jokes about advertising and mustaches.
A collage of aging reminiscences and portraits: Macagley on his mother’s influence, Beatrice Harnen described in San Francisco, Zangwill’s Jewish-poor focus, Sarah A. Smith’s Paris death shaping memorials, Princess Prancaccio Massimo’s Fabian lineage, Sig Crispi’s wit, and Gen. Jo Shelby recounting Meade’s capture on the White River during the war.
A collage of vintage quips and observations from U.S. newspapers. It blends wry humor on tenements and fire escapes with playful wordplay from readers and sentimental vignettes about family life, temperance, and social norms across multiple cities.
Fragmentary ad copy from a 19th century page mocks medical cures with misheard dialogue and chaotic dialogue. It cites Dengetts advertised remedy and Star newspaper circulation talk while featuring characters Mas Misner Mrs Gusbler and Uncle Eben in comically disordered lines.
Market notes list cattle for sale with steers and breeders, cotton, wheat, corn, oats, and dairy products. Mentions New Mexico leaf water, dairy items, and a storm of abbreviations for various goods with limited clarity.
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.