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
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
11
A collage of brief items notes quirky solutions for resourceful women, world wool rankings with Australia leading, a tale of a family awakening as a traveling show passes, plus miscellany on heat sensitivity of hands and a first woman dentist in North Carolina. It also includes Valparaiso reconstruction funds and a jokey New York Times aside about a bar and a famous painting.
Secretary of the Navy Victor Metcalf resigns effective December 1 due to ill health. Assistant Secretary Truman Newberry is named his successor. Newberry, a businessman with prior naval service, has been a Taft ally and Michigan naval brigade veteran, who volunteered for the Spanish American War.
The text highlights Mr. Newberry as a naval department official who served in the Yosemite during the Civil War era, later entering the department as a businessman. He previously led roles in Detroit manufacturing, supervised construction and freight operations for the Detroit Bay City & Alpena Railway, and rose to assistant secretary of the navy. Roosevelt valued his prior service and maintained close relations with him.
A man seeks a patented article visiting five drug stores in one neighborhood. In the second shop the pharmacist says he never had demand for it though stocked earlier. In the third, he recalls stock ran out and the supplier failed to deliver for weeks, so he stopped keeping it. You can tie them, but you can't beat them.
The Cleveland Leader notes a fashionable society scene where a stylish woman is so distant from her own two year old that the child does not recognize her. The item highlights social pretense and domestic distance within elite circles.
An official of the Marine hospital service plans to develop a breed of cats with high rat-catching ability to aid in Honolulu rat extermination efforts.
Berlin announces Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, recently in Egypt, appointed to succeed Baron Speck von Sternburg as U S ambassador. Born 1862 in London, he has held posts from Constantinople to Cairo and London, noted for diplomatic skill and after dinner wit.
Washington reports friends of John Hays Hammond a Massachusetts mining engineer and publicist plan to urge President Taft to appoint him to the cabinet, potentially heading the Commerce and Labor Departments. The move signals interest in leveraging Hammond’s business and public affairs background at the federal level.
The passage notes Mond favors shaping the Department of Commerce and Labor as a real aid to the nations commercial interests, especially manufacturing. It also highlights Hammond’s role in supporting the National League of Republican Clubs, financing their activities, and planning permanent HQ and expanded membership over four years.
The text cites accepted authorities listing 3424 spoken languages worldwide, including regional breakdowns: 937 Asiatic 578 European 276 African 1624 American. It claims the majority belong to savage and gemi savage tribes and nations.
Reports from Illinois cover pheasant releases increasing under state game wardens, abundant quail but scarce shooting space, a Mrs. Lulu Rote returning home after desertion, and a flash of local tragedies including hydrophobia fears in Patoka township, a death from a runaway, a baby named aboard a moving train, a saloon fire fatality, and bank exams.
A critique of the modern smile as a depreciating currency that fails to illuminate or bridge silence. The piece notes the past value placed on a woman's smile and contrasts it with current attitudes, interwoven with an advertisement for Lewis' Single Binder cigars.
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.