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
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1940
Page
3
A New York radio host Dave Himan promotes hobbies as moral uplift and personal resilience. The piece links hobbies to wartime morale and urges readers to join a government campaign to cultivate land, grow vegetables, and stockpile for winter, presenting tilling the soil as a vital hobby and civic duty.
A wartime appeal urges Newfoundlanders to boost food supply through extra crops and home processing of fish. It calls for cooperation with government to prevent famine and poverty while supporting the Empire and Allied victory.
Two speakers trade evasive lines about a secret and who told whom. The dialogue plays on misdirection as each character acknowledges sharing information while trying to keep others in the dark.
A reader confronts the problem of war and inhumanity amid Christian history, asking if Christianity has failed to produce peace. The article promotes the booklet God and Reason from Bible Students in Saint Job’s Box 809, inviting affiliation and an offer to send the pamphlet.
A wartime note from the Wumber Herald quotes the German cruiser Deutschland in port since last month and reports a proposed name change to Luetzow. The piece mocks the idea and suggests potential implications for escape attempts and Allied retaliation as rhetoric heats up.
A wartime radio spoof depicts Hitler attempting to reach Stalin by phone to negotiate concessions over Poland. The dialogue mocks tensions between Germany and the Soviet Union and references Britain, France, and Ukraine.
An unknown quote advises not to seek flaws in life but to be kind and sometimes blind, focusing on virtue. It encourages seeking good near every encounter and greeting others with a smiling face.
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.