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 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1900
Page
11
An 1809 advertisement promotes Ginola club whiskey as a bracer for fatigue and entertainment. It touts its Tich Davor and velvety smoothness, claiming a drinker will wish for a longer throat to taste it all the way down. Signed by H. Menger at 140 W Commerce St Rhone 447.
Rivage de Questiehou reports an unusual octopus influx along the Cherbourg promontory hurting Unis coast fisheries. Boats laid up, shells eaten, oysters decimated, and octopi dozens of yards across reported as winter approaches, threatening next summer’s bathing season.
A quirky dispatch from the Congo Free State notes a hand organ grinder’s music delights locals. Missionaries report couples eager to wed with organ music daily, sparking a wedding frenzy and possible migration, as women and men embrace the festive novelty amid religious rites.
A newspaper editor laments dwindling subscribers while a mistaken mail mix up sends absurd solutions about grasshoppers and twits. The piece then notes the decline of the term dowager as royalty rebrands, with Victoria’s daughter and Wilhelmina adopting new styles and a decree renaming the former regent Queen Roman of the Netherlands.
An excerpted mash of laws banning interracial marriages across multiple states and nations, mixed with reports on ostrich domestication progress in South Africa and a novel electric bridge destruction method. The items come from a Chicago Chronicle era page, listing forceful social rules and curious technology notes.
A fragment from Tit-Bits and other papers features a humorous exchange about resizing an engagement ring, paired with the line an engagement Ting remains an engagement Ting. Other snippets reference casual dialogue and a quip about love and money.
A jumble of notes covers Kentucky water causing coughing fits and limestone blocks, corn products from Paris Exposition, South African game decline, meteorite origins discussed in Britain, atmospheric waves creating high cloud ripples, and diverse global mentions. Names include Louisville chemists and British association figures amid scattered observations.
A clipped, humorous note contrasts athletic wives with housework, citing a remark from a press clip about “hilspiper articles” and suggesting men once relied on monks’ crossed-barrel marks as a sign of quality liquor. The excerpt includes quips about fitness and domestic roles from the Indianapolis Press and Boston Budget.
A garbled extract weaves theatrical dialogue and newspaper fragments. It references a mistress, Jane, and characters like Hans, with stray lines about soup, poverty prayers, and a Chicago Daily News quotation. The passage resembles a collage of900 fragmented headlines and literary allusions.
Amid garbled text, the article notes rising postage rates in Britain and a US postal deficit of $6 million a year. It mentions parcels charged 8% for the first pound and two cents for each additional pound, and an exchange warning that big department stores may ruin small merchants. The piece references readers and conversations about arithmetic and general economic concerns.
A child aged three to four, raised among Christ science believers, is left with a non believer aunt. After a fall she cries, the aunt asks if she is hurt and the child responds, I am not hurt because I am mad. The child explains she is upset at being hurt and misinterprets her feelings, revealing the clash of beliefs.
The N Y Sun reports Countess Di Cos Siglione died in Press at the Malian embassy’s request. The Meenchan who placed in her house is suspected of seizing cupboards and drawers for letters from Victor Emmanuel and Cavour. Italy will not let these letters fall into irresponsible hands.
A rich Oklahoma farmer tells G. Lowell Miller he will provide married brides with substantial sums. He names three daughters, Chere's Mary aged 23 to receive 35000, Get to receive 10000, and Wilzi age 40 with 15000, noting Lima pride in their daughters and desire for comfortable marriages. The exchange occurs at the Oklahoma Site Capital.
In After Yearn the bride of a month tells auntie that Tom treats her as a child. The old daddy advises not to mind and says at his age memories come with pleasure. The passage reflects domestic dialogue from a serialized story in World.
A collage of clipped lines from Chicago Evening News Washington Star and Detroit Free Press feature humor and puns. Snippets include a wary farmer and a wolf joke about a door and meat an exchange about a son’s money and a lawyer a riddle about optimist versus pessimist and a joke about a silent partner in a private deer and dumb asylum.
A fragmentary remark compares extravagance and cattle fashion, noting brass horn knobs and daily use of gold thimbles as symbols of opulence versus economy. The dialogue hints at social commentary on wealth and display in a historical setting.
An obscure Chicago Daily News line notes a lawyer who can “afford to Aress wall” if he has many law cults on Rand. The fragment hints at legal bravado or satire about wealth and influence in the profession.
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.