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
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
7
A garbled reader’s excerpt features names like Leupen Macdudl and Macbeth with odd spellings and a childlike narrator Margie spelling words. Dialogue includes a macabre line Die says how to tell letters by shape and a grocer’s wife lamenting winter beach plans with a sugar laden scene.
A London society member once received a gold hunter watch inscribed as a gift from a London society of doubtful practices. Years later the watch was stolen, then mailed back with a letter of apology claiming the group never robs its pals.
A fragmentary satire mocks spring health ads and jokes about Hood's Sarsaparilla as the cure all for pimples indigestion and biliousness. It blends comic lines about ice bars Charon and a legal exchange, reflecting old newspaper humor and quirky clipped quotations.
A humorous foreign reader aimed excerpt recounts a shooting outrage amid a tale of miscreants and untimely death. The piece blends quirky names and phrases, noting mournful reactions as the scene unfolds with a tone of ironic commentary.
A fragment discusses Sheppard's Plaid a black and white check pattern linked to a 19th century textile inventor. It mentions common misnaming shepherds plaid and notes the fabric's introduction by a manufacturer at an 1851 exhibition.
A poetic fragment contemplates growth and revelation as a speaker awaits a simple scene with a daisy. The speaker questions seeing God in ordinary nature and seeks meaning through reading a poet's words and drinking from a spring.
In London, forty years ago, Paul Latimer backs Nora Masterson, an heiress adopted after her father’s unjust fourteen-year prison term. Nora’s father, Masterson, seeks truth and vengeance against the forger Robert Holroyd, while Latimer weighs aiding Nora’s claim as Masterson confronts the man who ruined him.
Masterson stalks a crowd outside a theater seeking a man named Holroyd believed to be young Robert Holroyd. A carriage brings Latimer and a girl, Nora, into his path, stirring strong feelings. A masked confrontation erupts as Masterson forces toward Nora, is knocked down, and near death, memories surface of Nora and a doctor.
Nora reveals to Masterson that Robert Holroyd confessed to a crime he was unjustly convicted of. The letter, from Robert Holroyd’s father, also states Holroyd has died and left half his fortune to Masterson. Nora then confesses her engagement to Holroyd’s son, seeking her father’s approval.
Inspector E A Pelletier and two comrades retraced a vast Canadian northward route from Hudson Bay toward the Mackenzie River reporting on travel by dog sled and river passages. They endured portages, mosquitos, and deer crossings with thousands of deer seen along the height of land from Artillery Lake to Great Slave Lake.
Immersed in a remote Houma region, inhabitants still practice stone age era habits. The piece notes 64,000 cave dwellings and a rural diet of millet, corn, wild fruits, and wild herbs. It cites Dr. Emil Flecher and references old agriculture and funeral customs.
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.