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 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
4
A poem about marching spirit and endurance contrasts with a feature on military embroidery as a profession. It notes the disciplined, exact work of applying insignia and decorations, linking art to military service and highlighting patience, apprenticeship, and the demand from public and foreign ceremonies.
Lida Lord Reed prints in the Century a true account of life during the siege, including a vivid raid on Oakland and a detailed visit with General Grant. She describes destruction at home, scarce provisions, and the soldiers’ brutalities, then recounts Grant’s courteous reception and papers to secure transportation for civilians.
A Washington Star report describes paper innovations in bicycles, carpets, and robes. Paper bicycle frames promise strength and lightness, paper carpets from Japan offer warm, thick floor coverings in 230 patterns, and German paper robes cling to skin yet dry quickly and insulate against temperature changes.
A Washington outfitter says women are the sole workers for military shoulder knots, tap devices, sleeve and belt insignia across departments and services. He notes high skill, long practice, and exclusive mastery, with earnings and home-based work, while amateurs struggle to replicate exact figures and devices.
Cuba has about 1,500,000 people with 910,000 native whites 142,000 foreign whites 234,000 pure blood negroes 286,000 mulattoes and 14,000 Chinese. Over 60 percent cannot read or write.
An attorney from Toronto recalls a heated Canadian political rivalry between Sir John Macdonald and Sir Richard Cartright. He contrasts their backgrounds, noting Sir Richard’s luxury birth and a “German silver smile” to mock his opponent. The crowd responds with approving cheers.
A readable clip describes a 12 year old girl’s English town examination response on gender roles. It contrasts boys’ loudness and misbehavior with girls’ restraint and eventual adult roles, noting boys become husbands while girls become widows who keep house.
Veterans reflect on youth and childhood memories as they recall their first steps toward military duty. The piece contrasts carefree early life with wartime service, highlighting personal growth and long months spent training.
The piece explains how certain diseases affect both people and animals, noting tuberculosis as a key shared illness and describing others such as smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and plague. It discusses animal-to-human transmission via milk or contact, and mentions diseases common to animals like hydrophobia and foot-and-mouth, plus parasitic skin infections like ringworm.
At a London Entomological Society meeting President G H Verrall shared a tale showing insect knowledge aids literary history. A fly squeezed in Robert Louis Stevenson notes proved the author resided in Samoa by its Polynesian species, thus resolving the dating debate.
Professor G E Stone reports the New England pine loved by Hermonson remains healthy in central Massachusetts forests. While hemlock beech and canoe birch decline, the sturdy pine thrives by adapting to varied conditions and holds its own amid changing ecosystems.
Astronomers plan a Sumatra eclipse expedition May 17 to study whether a solar corona exists beyond the sun’s outer atmosphere. The inquiry centers on the corona’s presence during the eclipse and its implications for solar science.
In 1899 India suffered at least 24 621 human deaths from venomous snake bites, worsened by floods driving snakes to high lands near homesteads. Wild beasts killed 2 966 people. tigers and leopards caused 227 deaths. bears, elephants, hyenas, jackals, crocodiles and others killed 1 402. Cattle losses reached 89 238.
The article urges early hair care to prevent baldness, noting hair lifespans of two to five years and the need for healthy scalp nourishment. It links hat use to baldness, advises soft hats, regular shampooing, gentle brushing, and scalp massage, and suggests medical advice for persistent dandruff.
Sir Harry Johnson, who visited the Congo forest dwarf communities, notes despite ape like ugly appearance they are winning and cheerful. Their dancing is frolic some and gay with pretty movements, differing from the motions of blacks. He calls their intelligence well developed.
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.