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 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1892
Page
3
Fragmentary verse lines describe beauty and love, with imagery of a maiden’s face and nocturnal longing. The speaker contemplates wealth and charm, while weaving in dreamlike scenes of bondage to desire and a distant, starry future. The text blends longing with spectral visions and ornate phrasing.
A narrator recalls brutal winter hardship on the plains with cattle losses and a rescued stranger who improves, while a later Chicago witness narrates a letter to a woman and a surviving brother who returns to work for the railroad. The piece shifts to literary musings on afterthoughts in classic works and authors, noting title changes and final plans.
A Philadelphia Times meditation on engagements exposing deceit before marriage and candor after. It argues that both sexes mask faults until wedlock, leading to unhappy unions when truth finally surfaces. The piece is paired with fashion notes from the Boston Globe on soft gowns and negligee styling in rose bengaline and heliotrope silk with jeweled trim.
An illustrated guide describes a tree protector for apple trees with figs showing setup. It specifies lath length of 3 feet, seven or eight laths per protector, and wire size No 18 in iron brass or copper. Brass and copper last longer though costlier. A board method measures wire lengths for a 7 lath protector.
Instructions from the Wisconsin Horticultural Society describe a spring loaded tree protector built on a bench with elastic wood, nails, wires, and lath strips. The device clamps around the trunk to prevent suckering, rodent damage, and whiffletree-related injuries, useful during summer and winter.
A short guide describes affordable stable tools for horse owners. It details a wooden scraper with a four and a half foot handle and a head about inches long and six inches wide, tapering at the edges, plus a second scraper with the same length and head but four inches wide, featuring two and a half inch long wooden pins along the upper edge.
Three quarters inch wooden teeth allow cleaning without a fork. The tool aids separating coarse from fine litter. A pine long handle clears drainage holes. a string loop lets it hang. American Agriculturist notes the device for efficient stable maintenance.
The Farmers Voice advises selecting a young steer to fatten for beef, promoting poultry and home fruit and vegetable production in winter. It notes good egg prices, profitable fruit storage methods using dry sawdust, and the carbonic acid gas cycle in plants and its return to oxygen in combustion.
A collection of short recipe ideas including Egg Sauce and Lemon Flapjacks from Practical Farmer and Detroit Free Press, plus directions for Yankee Doughnuts and Perfect Baked Apples. Also notes on mucilage from onion juice, Okra Gumbo, and a long essay on why autumn foliage fails to color vividly this year, with comparisons to trees in England and Asia. A light humor piece ends with a quip about popular opinion and hats.
The advertisement touts Royal Baking Powder as the best leavening due to pure ingredients, consistent strength, and long freshness. It contrasts Royal with imitations and alum-containing powders while noting widespread use and acclaim in the Wide Awake readers' pages.
The fragment describes figs as pleasant and agreeable to the stomach and bowels providing healthful effects. It urges trying a remedy for those seeking prompt relief, recommending reliable sources and avoiding untrustworthy wishes.
Kansas City readers report a mother praising Reid's German and Kidney Cure for a nineteen month old baby troubled by croup. She claims two doses halted attacks and urges others not to overdose.
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.