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
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1914
Page
4
Guide Rock Signal reports a local notice by a candidate for county treasurer stressing private family discussion of sexology, moral upbringing, and gender roles. The writer condemns public schools for such topics and urges responsibility, protection, and avoidance of crude colored stories to prevent harm to boys and girls.
Projected earnings to run the canal without taxpayer burden total about 19.25 million dollars yearly. This includes zone sanitation, Panama annuity, and interest on 875 million invested plus a sinking fund. Toll set at 1.20 per net ton with expected traffic rising from 10.6 million tons to about 17.7 million by decade end.
A business leader argues that employee contentment comes from giving workers something to look forward to. He notes that satisfied staff stay focused, while restless workers chase other jobs and risk poor performance. The pension system is presented as the solution, promising old age security for employees and their families.
The piece describes ancient Spartan discipline aimed at military efficiency. Boys and men faced continual training from age seven, with harsh regulations on physique. Deformed or too fat individuals were culled or publicly exposed and threatened with banishment to maintain soldierly standards.
Gubbins, who calls his living room the library, welcomes a guest as he presents his daughter to a visitor. A plaster pillar surmounts by a bust decorates the room while the guest is guided to the right, not the left, toward a household treasure.
A Philadelphia Ledger exchange argues about gender appearance and disguise. A woman can alter her look with cosmetics, restaging appearance as easily as a man can alter facial hair, the debate notes.
The glacier does not move as a single block but sows to fit its channel. Tyndall planted sticks across the ice and observed the line curl, indicating the glacier moves faster in the center than at the sides, akin to a river’s flow.
Maude’s parents discuss a reluctant caller as a late night scene unfolds. Maude’s papa notes the fellow hates to go, while Maude’s mamma remains confident the young man is already quite far gone in his pursuit.
A fragmented reflection contrasts clever ruses in fiction with seeing through pretensions. It recalls an artist who painted an Irish girl with a sunflower and a tale of a Russian millionaire to compel piano lessons, ending with a joke on learning the black keys.
In Victoria era Windsor a telegram from Sir Francis Bertie to Lord Pomfret caused the queen to fear an unexpected visit. Bertie arrived to elaborate preparations and a staged reception amused the queen who advised him to sign future telegrams differently.
At a monthly meeting a homing society member recalls two young pigeons sent from a cote 200 miles away by train. The birds returned to the original cote in two days prompting a tense exchange as the narrator and president discuss the odd event and a coincidental sale of eggs in June.
A housekeeper of experience explains the correct method to fold a man's coat for travel. Lay the coat flat with the wrong side down, spread the sleeves, fold back the elbow until sleeve ends align with the collar, fold the revers, then double the coat in the center and smooth it carefully.
The article explains ship navigation by observing the sun at noon to determine latitude and by timing sights of the sun to Greenwich for longitude. It notes sextant use, logarithmic calculations, and chronometer readings to plot position on a chart.
The Boston Globe recalls the Avon shoe trade of 1890 when two brothers ran a shoe and general store then sent molasses hogsheads north to Avon. After refill, the hogsheads returned south filled with boots for the southern market. The cycle built a strong Avon footwear business.
A Russian surgeon reports a 21 year old peasant with paralysis after likely diphtheritic illness. After two weeks of total paralysis movement returned in arms, then respiratory failure necessitating artificial respiration day and night February 5 to 20. Breathing resumed February 20 but swallowing difficulty recurred. artificial respiration restarted February 26 and continued until March 1 when natural breathing returned and the patient recovered.
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.