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 4 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1894
Page
6
A shopper guide warns against cheap silks and outlines tests to spot inferior fabric. It covers tearing, weaving, backing, dye quality, tensile pull, puckering, burning with ash color, and odor to detect pure silk versus blends or treated fibers. It emphasizes strength, luster, softness, and lightness as key qualities.
A guide to making an affordable dainty flower stand using three crossed bamboo legs fixed to a small pine top, covered with washing silk and finished with bells. Also notes on announcing a baby's birth with a tiny card and the evolution of tea table covers with an eleven inch deep valance for five oclock tea.
A collage of short items and anecdotes from a city newspaper page includes jokes about a Siberian exile, humorous quips on bacilli in money, a domestic scene with a crying child, a Niagara Falls travel encomium with phonograph, a social question about a woman's duties, flirtatious banter at a fair, and rail travel ads. It also notes local notices about Kansas City parades, a World’s Fair rail feat, and early 20th century product ads for hair health and cough syrup.
Readable fragments describe a Bismarck Grove event with trains, Union Pacific service, admission prices, agricultural displays, and a speed ring prize. Mentions three daily trains, political days, Indian school band, and a urged call for full programme from Union Pacific agent. Also includes mixed advertisements for Beggs Blood Purifier De Witts Witch Hazel Salve and other products with generic claims and local business placements.
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.