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 24 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
6
The forest service releases a summary of grazing in national forests for the year ended 1907. Total forests exceed 166 million acres with varying stock, mainly sheep goats or cattle and horses in different regions. Permits issued to 23,662 applicants with 21,788 paying fees and receiving permits.
An old advertisement touts Hyomel as a stomach based cure for catarrh, urging breathing the remedy to target nasal germs. Tallman & Co promise a money back guarantee if the complete Hyomel outfit, priced at one dollar, does not cure.
The globe trotter names three extreme climates: the strait of Magellan with rain almost daily and hurricane winds year round, Sierra Leone with 81 degree days and 189 inches of annual rainfall plus marsh mists and mosquitoes, and central Asia high plateaus with dry air creating scorching days and bitter nights.
An animal keeper argues running a zoo requires specialized knowledge to feed diverse guests. Elephants demand 160 pounds daily of specific foods, hippos 200 pounds of roots and grass, giraffes 50 pounds of chaff and grain, while lions and tigers get eight pounds of raw horseflesh. Farms supply the zoo, including a mouse farm and a worm farm for birds.
The unhappy Queen Marie Antoinette owned 4712 volumes of romances plays and other works by Pascal Bossuet Fenelon Bourdaloue and Voltaire among others. She loved music and held a collection of 89 operas. Bindings by Blaizot bore the arms of France and Austria though the work shows poor execution and fading binding art. The revolution killed much of the old book trade and binding craft.
Beetles employ defenses beyond their hard armor including nauseous and caustic liquids expelled when provoked. Some species bleed as a noxious defense, notably within the Coccinellidae and Meloidae families, with varying odors and venomous components such as cantharidine in Meloidae. Blood odors differ among groups, from strong insect-like scent to odorless but astringent and venomous varieties.
Two young Indies attempt golf for the first time. One exclaims the ball is in the hole and seeks instructions. The other reads a book of rules and suggests using a stick of the right shape to remove it, joking about a dustpan and brush.
A Chicago News item presents a terse courtroom style exchange about theft and consequences. A husband proclaims theft leads to regret while the wife recalls past courtship, showing tension between remorse and affection in a brief dialogue.
A brief exchange quotes a prisoner pleading for time to reform, with the judge granting thirty days. The passage also includes a proverb about philosophy and a Goldsmith line about a jade on a journey.
A London Globe commentary argues that reflected glory from famous friends often outshines real achievement. It cites Algernon Ashton and the idea that being known by a great man brings kudos with fewer drawbacks, while actual fame carries heavy burdens.
The island of fre in central Grobogana is a two mile circumference lake of boiling mud. Immense hot mud columns rise and fall while giant bubbles explode in the subsurface heat. A spire of baked mud once belched cold water but is now gone, leaving a seething mass drawing visitors from afar.
The article notes February 11 as the great annual festival of Kigensetsu, anniversary of the empire’s foundation by Emperor Jimmu in 680 BC. It recalls 1889 when Emperor Meiji promulgated Japan’s present constitution and cites the unbroken imperial line. It also mentions the 1800 parliamentary organization in Japanese chronology.
Nicolas Chevalier d Assis, French captain of the Auvergne regiment, born at Vigan, died during a night reconnaissance on October 15 1700 near Klostercamp Westphalia when a hostile column approached to ambush the French army. He cried Amor Auvergne the enemy is here and was killed on the spot Bouillet’s Dictionary of History.
The Louisville Courier Journal recalls Uncle Gilderoy Skite asserting that most of us can touch fame. He notes Abraham Lincoln split rails for a man who later had a cousin steal a dog, illustrating how proximity to greatness can be tangled with odd recollections.
A wife complained to Whitesden magistrates that her husband mistreated her, saying he wiped his feet on her and walked over her. The case is described as incompatibility of temperament, with the remark that he should have married a door mat.
A brief comic line from Meggendorfer Blatter features a lover fearing memory loss. The response notes two knots tied in a pocket handkerchief as a playful sign. The fragment captures a cartoonish exchange and themes of memory and affection.
The excerpt presents a garbled mix of phrases including Beggar-Kind air and lines about not taking children, a Rome reference, and a Phaedrus citation. It also mentions desiring fortune for someone captured at his own valuation and notes about powers of the M ub le. The fragmentary nature limits coherent meaning.
An antiquary cites Heinrich Croger born in Amsterdam and died in New York in 1870, quoting his 1783 diary on pure foods. He laments drinkable water tainted by sewer filth, wine adulteration with elder and aloes, bread with chalk and bone ash, and butter made from candle greens, plus greens boiled in brass and pickles steeped in tainted vinegar.
An old Pearson's guide recommends a neck massage to drain blood and clear lymph vessels after sleep. It outlines brisk rubs along the jugular vein and back of the neck to stimulate fresh blood flow and reduce grogginess, claiming it outperforms coffee.
The piece traces how Miss originates from mis tress as the wife of an esquire or gentleman and became a term for young girls. By early 18th century it applied only to those under ten, then aging out to insult when used for older girls. Smollett uses Mrs for both an unmarried woman of mature years and her maid.
The article warns that unprotected lights are forbidden in the linoleum mixing department due to the risk of cork dust ignition. It notes that cork dust and cement mixtures can spontaneously ignite in warmth, so materials are mixed in small, sackful portions to reduce explosion risk.
A humorous Harpers Weekly line defines a figure of speech as a woman in a jokey dialogue about dads and mothers. The Washington Star exchange presents a paradox where poets face scant encouragement, with a weary youth claiming poetry should be read but not written.
Chicago Tribune quotes Shyne debating Rayner about breaking the habit of smoking at an older age and noting the nerve required to quit. The exchange centers on personal restraint and public talk about smoking.
A fragmented quip filled with dating era wit contrasts mistaken feelings with fleeting happiness. Cynicus argues one cannot truly tell when in love until it is too late, while Comfort is described as a plain label for happiness. The passage also references shifting hues of complexion and travel commentary in a dated newspaper voice.
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.