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
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1912
Page
4
An elderly Newfoundland River matron died, leaving a lengthy married life of over eighty-five years and twenty-six years as a widow. Married in 1801 at fifteen, she recalled the Napoleonic wars and Prussian officials with vivid clarity. An Italian historian, a decade ago, visited Prussia to verify dates with her, prompted by a Potsdam archives keeper.
The article notes carnivory in plants is spreading beyond sundews and Dionaea. It explains how droplets and glands trap prey, with digestion aided by acid secretions. It speculates future giant leaves of Pinguicula could lie on the ground attracting grazing animals.
A Prussian woman in her one hundred twenty five years is the oldest resident, celebrated for memory and longevity. Census workers tracked her for decades. now nearly blind and rheumatic, she is placed in a Catholic institution as her children have died. Her family includes a son who died at eighty nine and a daughter who passed away the day the mother reached the milestone.
Eleven skeletons found at Craigshill Eliensburg Washington lie 20 feet underground in a cement rock formation with shale above. J P Munson biology professor at the state normal school calls them primitive man remains with oversized jawbones and a 20 inch femur suggesting a height near 80 inches.
Dating from early Christianity the bell tower of Vilna in Russia fascinates authorities for its antiquity amid a modern industrial city. The city preserves the tower the eld cathedral and other historic structures.
Archaeologists report a major discovery near Samaria, identifying a palace complex possibly linked to the Hebrew king Ahab. Hebrew inscriptions and household remnants, including pottery shards, suggest older Omri era connections and references to Maboth and vineyards.
Kansas City man Isom C. Stephens recalls a Denver gold mine hoax in 1860 that fed Horace Greeley’s famous Go West urging. He and five companions chased placer gold near Boulder, earning only a pittance before learning the mines were salted to spark enthusiasm. He later moved across four states as a pioneer.
Babism founded in Persia about 1846 by Sayid Mirza Ali who took the name Beb ed din the gate of the faith and became known as the Bab. His disciples were the Babis and the Bab was murdered at Tabriz on July 8 1860. The piece notes the difficulty of conveying Orientals mysticism in Western terms and mentions Babis teaching presence in the United States.
Oren imported by Switzerland last year numbered 61,592 as the Alpine districts push ploughing efforts. The average price paid was $140 an ox, reflecting the scale of stock and labor costs in rural farming regions.
A conversation centers on courage and pride in a man who borrowed fifty dollars to begin life. Mr Growcher questions admiration for the borrower while praising the lender's boldness in supporting him.
A Chicago area inventor improves a prior iron stove idea by using an electric fan as a base and a shaped cooking vessel with lifting handles. Heat from the entire bottom cooks food quickly, boiling water in the vessel, offering stove like cooking on electricity.
The article notes growing emphasis on safeguards for workers where dust particles are generated by grinding polishing and buffing. It describes an electric motor powered suction dust collector with a metal hood a fan and a receptacle to vent dust away from workers.
Santa Monica California considers a plan to distill ocean water for domestic use aided by a heating plant at Burning Mountain. The city has adequate supply but Owens River import from Los Angeles is blocked and a U shaped pipe proposal may carry sea water to a distillation facility.
During a bitter winter a plan was needed to heat the bears at the New York zoo Gulf? The article notes steam pipes were laid to supply warmth for the bear enclosure as part of the city’s cold weather measures.
Report describes sunken torpedo boats equipped with a surface attached submarine telephone device. If sunk, the apparatus floats to the surface and can be picked up by nearby vessels, enabling telephonic contact with rescuers. During Kiel harbor maneuvers the German submarine U sunk with 25 crew. rescue contact kept conversation continuous for three hours, aiding rescue guidance.
Ben J. Ballard of Cleveland describes a cylindrical electric light about 1% inches in diameter and 12 inches long. The lamp feeds current through a filament from one end to the other and is suited for window or showcase lighting with reflectors to form a bright display while keeping the bare light hidden from passersby.
The item surveys various advances from the British post office controlling 800000 miles of wires to France using electricity to ripen cheese. It notes electric lighting for wheat in Colorado and gas bans in Strasburg suburbs. It mentions Eiffel Tower weather data for ships, red-coated linemen in Washington, a French two cylinder motor roller skate, and an electrically heated serving tray. It ends with tourist trains on a Pacific line.
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.