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 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1921
Page
2
The piece surveys proposals for World War I memorials across universities and cities, favoring memorial libraries, hospitals, auditoriums, and bridges over plain monuments. It cites Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Massachusetts, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and others, noting rising public interest in functional commemoration and memorial trees beside grand structures.
Washington recalls General William Crawford Gorgas with a proposed memorial institute of medical research in Panama City. The Panama Government plans the building with US support, aiming to raise maintenance funds. the charter calls for tropical disease expeditions and ongoing studies linking disease control to canal era health.
Annie Lincoln, 12, daughter of John Lincoln near Somerfield, took a revolver during a play session with friends two weeks after a peer killed herself. In the struggle to take the weapon from John Perch, Annie fired a shot, striking her own breast and causing death.
A reader question column covers jelly setting without a thermometer, golf penalties for unplayable lies, cowpea fertilization, Australian vs Greenland size, forgery detection via photography and radiography, largest sawmill capacity, and differences between bitter and sweet almonds as well as Buddhism’s age relative to Christianity.
A century after Thorvalsen’s lion at Lucerne, a 1792 Paris defense is honored while critics argue the Swiss guards died defending a corrupt monarchy. The piece questions the motive, calling the cause “damned,” yet reveres the sculpture and the soldiers’ courage amid moral debate.
A strange dream poem unfolds with a headless kangaroo and a bear who play banjo, then morph into motormen planning to run a trolley over the narrator. The surreal voyage ends with waking to a misread joke about whipped-cream cake.
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.