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
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
6
An old advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney weakness with a Colfax testimonial of dramatic weight loss reversal. It also recounts brief vignettes about Carnegie labor talks and a London duel origin story, plus a barber shop sign with a paid-cleaning service while customers wait.
A brief exhortation urging daily cleanliness in home and life. It quotes a sage on responsible living, stressing a clean house equals a clean life and overall well being under the sun as a healing influence.
The speaker notes Gerald-Coffee and Geraldine-Me keep them awake and plan an extra cup when anticipating a visit. The lines convey a playful ritual around hospitality and anticipation of someone arriving.
A diligent clergyman testifies that replacing part of his breakfast with Grape-Nuts and Postum improved digestion headaches and energy for sermon work. He notes calmer nerves and stronger mental and physical stamina, and adds that others have benefited by his recommendation.
In June thousands of Hindus will gather at Pearl Orissa for the Juggernaut festival. The temple chariot will be dragged through the streets led by devotees harnessed to stout cables. The god Vishnu's image rests within the colossal car as the procession moves forward.
Description of the Juggernaut festival notes the towering 43 foot high car with six foot wheels, a wooden cage above for safety, and gold drape for the occasion. It warns of fanatics attempting self sacrifice while British civil officers are present to prevent deaths.
A nostalgic hostesses page describes a flower shaped booklet contest with sections on vegetables and flowers. A pen and ink sketch features a tea party with grandmothers answering tea themed riddles in a charming, old fashioned tea gathering.
A luncheon honoring a bride-to-be features a pink carnation centerpiece, ringed arrangements, heart motif place cards, and notes sealed with gilt hearts. The queen designated carnations as coronation flowers, boosting popularity and framing a festive, elegant event.
A mother shares how she planned a unique Grandmother party for her thirteenth year old daughter to entertain girl friends without traditional games. She describes invitations featuring a kindly elder and the department's interest in new, original party concepts.
Instructions describe folding fabric on a bias to create multiple layers. Open double width, turn corner true, fold about four inches across, pin for evenness, mark desired fold width, and cut with sharp shears. This method yields many folds in ten minutes versus hours by hand.
An old buttoned shoe can be repurposed to hold an iron using the shoe instep. The iron fits perfectly inside. Old stockings folded into layers make a soft hand covering for the leather holder.
Coarse blue linen frocks and embroidered blue and coral silk are popular for young girls this summer. Silk roses for neckwear, maline lace edging, Cameo sets for belts cuffs and pins, and silver running ribbons add dainty touches to lingerie and gowns.
The illustration presents a simple tile bodice to pair with a skirt, featuring embroidery, tucks, and inserted trims. A tucked silk yoke matches, with material requirements listed and two ready style examples suitable for delaine Viyella or cottons.
Pekin reports the 2450 year old well used by Confucius as a boy remains in Kufow within the Confucian temple grounds serving as a shrine. Confucius 651 to 479 B C is described as a moralist not a religious founder. He rose to minister of crime at 50, faced banishment, then returned to write his maxims.
Four 12 inch guns will be tested on the battleship Connecticut at the Brooklyn navy yard during a two week overhaul. The ship, famed for target practice, will be handled by expert gunners noted for high performance including a score of thirteen hits in fourteen at fourteen thousand yards.
Guardians to allow two cents per week pocket money to children boarded out from Sheppey union workhouse in Kent to place them in the same position as other children.
The scene notes two fish bars in the Colonial lobby and a quirky exchange about fish weight and duck hunting. The banter centers on outlandish measurements, with playful boasts about pulling a fish from a lake and four quarts of toes from a duck hunt.
The dialogue mocks a lean bohemian figure visiting a laundry and declares he is deeply in love with a girl there and plans to marry soon. Bjenks suspects something odd about the arrangement and questions what a true bohemian would be doing near a laundry.
A wedding tale recalls a shrieking baby at a ceremony and a bridesmaid’s fiery reply. A guest mutters about babies, the bridal party pauses, and the bridesmaid retorts she will print no babies expected on invitations.
Quote attributed to Parker urges using amusement to fill gaps in life rather than large spaces, promoting lightness over emptiness.
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.