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 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1891
Page
4
A fragmentary literary note from Walter M. Potfork printed in Longmans Magazine reflects on love and speech. The text muses on truth as a steep hill, urging restraint in expressing certain feelings while embracing learning through contrast between day and night.
A former Louisville engine shed cleaner recalls a perilous night when he secretly took the dangerous shift of fireman Norris to cover his drunk colleague Kate and drive the General Grant locomotive at high speed toward Weston. The act, driven by loyalty and fear of dismissal, leads to a perilous journey with a volatile partner driven by superstition and envy of a rival locomotive.
A mad engineer obsessed with a false claim of the President drives a railway train toward disaster. The narrator battles for his life, injures the assailant, and abandons a crucial note while racing toward Red Fork, culminating in Norris fatally shooting himself.
A collection of wry quips and light banter from various papers. Jests touch on poetry translation errors, clothing choices, animal chatter, romance, and neighborly mishaps.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes that folk in a streetcar show gleeful reactions to others misfortunes from forgotten hats to unpaid fares. The piece argues such glee reflects a lingering baser instinct and a monkeylike delight in neighbors’ woes.
A compact meditation on belief and happiness urging caution in blind faith and pride in flexible sentiment. It notes the trouble of insisting on one’s own way and the flirt’s challenge to balance resistance with a kiss.
A series of aphoristic reflections on egoism trust friendship and social desire. The author notes revenge is sweet but forgiveness is sweeter egotism often correlates with low justification distrust harms those who cling to it confidence is valuable though prone to abuse and disputes worsen when a third party becomes involved.
A collection of quick wits and exchanges from newspapers highlighting stage life doctors humor and schoolroom banter. Jokes include a stage manager actor as wind puffs wife statue and forgotten identities with light brisk punchlines.
A voice extols a well dressed man, valuing water soap clean shirts shoes and quality fabrics. It urges masculine, nonfeminine style and restraint, asserting women prefer a man who blends propriety with understated elegance and brain over vanity.
A periodical compiles clashes among composers with quips about Wagner Mendelssohn Weber Handel and Beethoven. Critics call Wagner’s Gehemees unworthy and Beethoven doubts Weber, while Schumann dismisses Wagner as amateurish in a sharp, controversial survey.
Scrambled timetable fragments list leaving Plainfield to New York and connections to Newark Easton Harrisburg and Pottsville. Entries include various departure times afternoon and evening with several garbled station names and numbers.
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.