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 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1887
Page
6
A garbled OCR excerpt discusses a subscriber failing to pay for a service and references refusal to take action. The text is incomplete and unclear, mentioning payment, a service, and possible dispute or notice without coherent details or names.
A garbled OCR passage presents fragmented lines about love and marriage. Names and clear facts are unreadable, leaving only disjoint phrases such as vows, bread, love, and wistful questions. The excerpt resembles a stray poem or dialogue from a historical page.
Hugh Elliott promises to care for a wild canary gifted to his mother. He sacrifices a playful birthday outing and returns home when his friend Hal’s plans clash with his vow. After choosing duty over fun, a kind stranger praises his integrity, sparking a lifelong habit of keeping promises and leading to a later career in the iron works.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt portrays a street tramp who exploits a good natured mother. He pleads for food at a back door, deflects insults with feigned gratitude, and mimics concern for a red headed child while steering the scene toward mock civility and a sharp quip about baking bread.
Reports from Virginia City Enterprise describe 12 to 16 inch pickerel preserved in rock salt at White Plains salt works on the Central Pacific line. The fish are ancient, not petrified, and were once in a lake basin 30 by 12 to 15 miles, over 300 feet deep. They can be eaten after soaking, though not palatable.
President Cleveland is praised for backing government ideals against demagogues in the Grand Army of the Republic. The piece condemns Tuttle Fairchild and Vandervoort, notes the GOP-leaning stance of the GAR, and defends Slocum’s Democrat status while criticizing pension excess and anti-Democrat sentiment in the press. It also cites reactions from multiple newspapers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes compares England and New England soils, praising England's layered geology rich in fossils, relics, and human traces spanning Roman to Celtic eras. He notes English soil yields more antiquity than New England, where finds are mainly arrowheads and pestles. Also cited: circa three quarters of this country's exports last year were agricultural.
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.