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
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
3
A widow and mother of six details long illness with sweats, loss of appetite, and fatigue. She says doctors offered surgery, then after four months on Peruna advised by Dr. Hartman she recovered. She praises Peruna and invites others to write for her full case.
A husband resisting buying a car finally relents after his wife taunts him about cutting table expenses. She wittily argues a vehicle would enable more frequent meals, prompting him to visit a dealer and order a racing car.
A fragmented column mixes a pulpit depiction of a repentant prodigal son with laundry tips for stiff, crisp fabrics. It includes Defiance Starch endorsements, notes on home laundering versus steam, and a quip about a girl watching streetcars, all in a vintage magazine tone.
A patchwork of editorial quips and social bites surveys from America and abroad. Jokes about money hoarding, hunger, and gossip mix with notes on Mars habitation, nosed nosed trends, and a New York stock scam. A musical comedy star to wed into English peerage closes the column.
The Well Informed demand a pleasant and efficient liquid laxative. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, a known value laxative physicians approve for family use. Genuine product sold by leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
A fragment notes interest in preserving Kuskwazamutes of interior Alaska for ethnological study before colonial disruption. It references Audubon Society concerns that sedge birds’ loss threatens crops, and mentions an East Liverpool incident about an impatient woman and a firearm charge in a city limit.
At a Flushing monument dedication for George For, a Quaker speaker argued that Quaker women never promised to obey their husbands and noted no divorced Quaker exists due to gender equality. He urged omitting the obedience vow in future ceremonies.
The fashionably strict ban bars snears and his countess from a dining room for not wearing evening attire, and theater admissions turn away those not in formal dress. The Youth's Companion notes such dress codes define a gentleman by attire, though it takes more than clothes to earn the title.
Sears Roebuck & Co of Chicago faces a three count indictment for using the mails to defraud. The charges allege false catalog representations and a June 13 1907 scheme to obtain money from Dr. C F Spring Des Moines by selling him purported white lead. Other counts cover another ring and a misrepresented item sent by mail.
A New York caller was met by an Irish servant girl who declared her hands were wet and offered to fetch her mistress using a comic phrase about putting tickets in her mouth. The scene illustrated the humor and class contrasts surrounding servant life in the city.
Mrs Henry Porter of Albdios Nebraska reports that after months with scalp sores from measles, Cuticura Remedies cleared her head and neck in three weeks. She says her hair did not grow back and she has remained cured for seven years.
A sequence of short anecdotes: a sensitive man quitting work after harsh words and recalling dentist pain. a widow’s will and last testament discussed with a sad tone. a waiter receiving a modest tip and counting it as good fortune. The pieces read like compact humor columns from a 19th or early 20th century paper.
A Texas teacher describes relief after quitting coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee for a month. She reports cleared nervousness, improved complexion, absence of indigestion and headaches, and ease of transitioning from coffee. Several others tried Postum and later accepted it after proper preparation.
A man cured after eighteen months in hospitals with back pain and rheumatism credits Dean's Kidney Pills. He says he weighed 143 pounds before use and 162 after taking 10 or 12 boxes. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, NY.
An aging magnate revisits his home village and tells old cronies of his success. A longtime local character, known since boyhood, appears and bluntly answers after a long pause, admitting he started with nothing and now feels he has his own.
Fragmented notice advertises a reward and medical products with broken phrases. It mentions Hal's Care and various names, markets, and prices in an unclear Toledo area context. The readable parts indicate a sale or service offering with unclear medical claims and several proper nouns.
In Prester John’s country remote Abyssinia, the day of the automobile arrives. The Negus grants a German company a concession for an Addis Abeba to Directuns route, a six day caravan distance. Motors will cover the distance in two days, per the London Globe report.
A fragment from a column contrasts domestic life and breadline poverty with sharp quotes. The dialogue mentions Newwed and Verr from New York newspapers, plus a Defiance Starch advertisement urging a fair trial and money-back guarantee, ending with a Ruskin quote on will and effort.
Winnipeg correspondence reports exceptionally high yields in Western Canada due to favorable weather and fertile land. It notes large tracts open for homesteads with 169 acres free from the Canadian government and mentions Craik Saskatchewan and Dahlia growth as evidence of soil power.
A frightened pansperous figure, asked if he lost his job, responds that he is not jobless but terrified of work, as a kind citizen offers help with a dime in a street encounter. The exchange highlights hardship and anxiety amid need.
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.