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 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1930
Page
10
A Broadway restaurant tale explains a celery push as the staff pressure a Michigan celery surplus. An amused diner outwits waiter Timmy and headwaiter Patsy by insisting on ordinary food, foiling the celery campaign and exposing the owner’s overstock predicament.
A compilation of maritime legends describing mermaids and mermen across regions from Greenland to Grimsy and Suffolk, noting humanlike upper bodies with fish tails, Webbed fingers, and sea omen beliefs. The text cites sailors, voyages, and Columbus as sources, weaving myth with historic accounts.
A Metropolitan Newspaper Service snapshot describes hippo like beasts seen by Stanley near the Upper Nile at Wady Haifa feeding on angleworms and avoiding condensed milk despite raids on nearby towns. The natives seek solutions as theft and damage persist.
The children of financier Thomas Fortune Ryan seek a new guardian claiming their grandmother is too old-fashioned. A seventeen year old girl and a sixteen year old boy, heirs to a vast estate, argue for guardianship changes as the court weighs the guardianship amid public debate.
Practical home canning and cooking notes from 1930 offer grape juice from fresh grapes preserved in jars, two tomato marmalades with lemon and raisins, Welsh rarebit with cheese and cream, and a Mint Wallop cooling drink. Instructions emphasize sealing jars, simmering mixtures, and serving on toast or with ice.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions understanding a new cook and a planned call the next day after tomorrow. It references a five minute window and suggests scheduling or confirmation of a cooking engagement. The text is incomplete and lacks clear identities or dates.
A brief column warns movers against entering a new home by the back door, deeming it very unlucky. Attributed to McClure Newspaper Syndicate, the playful superstition reads as a light cautionary note.
Poem about aging and youth by Douglas Malloch. It contrasts an old man who stays lively with a young man who feels doomed, arguing that age is a matter of mind. The piece urges joy and laughter to stay youthful in spirit.
An advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a bowel regulator. It claims daily regularity, thorough cleansing of waste, quick, safe relief from headaches biliousness and constipation, and appeal to children. The copy urges readers to obtain large bottles from their druggist and expects improved feeling tomorrow and beyond.
Mrs Hiflyer asserts daughters require discipline at times. Mrs Unpalnight counters and cites sending her sixteen year old Margaret to bed without breakfast last night. Life.
Advice on weight for women age 45 to 49 with height charts and suggested diets. Recommends cutting pies and pastries, limiting potatoes and sugar, eating lean meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit. Promotes Kruschen Salts as a 85 cent four week fat loss remedy.
A Sydney Bul lectin note jokes about a rejected poet who tossed himself into a waste paper basket. The piece then notes parrots learn swear words from emphasis, reflecting playful animal wordplay.
Philips Milk of Magnesia advertised as a fast acting anti acidity remedy. A spoonful in water neutralizes stomach acids quickly and relieves heartburn within minutes. Available in 25 and 50 cent bottles through drugstores with physician approval.
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.