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
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1940
Page
5
A fragmentary set of quotes and jokes features Ivan Norton remarking on a cardinal in his basement window fight for seventy three days. The collection includes maxims on honesty and humor about work, luck, and human nature with no clear single news event or narrative.
In this brief fragment the speaker critiques formal romance and status while hinting at mutual effort in love. The text plays with imagery of coal facets and courtesy, suggesting gender dynamics and social expectations without a clear narrative outcome.
Seventy one boys attended the bean feed as LeRoy Pratt photographed proceedings. Rotary and Y groups met, with Lewis Warren honored and Dr Salisbury hosting. Cedar Rapids district champs compete, fire damages noted, then Des Moines state liquor stores report March sales at 1,062,623.80, up from 1939 and February 1940.
Mr and Mrs Richard Heitzman celebrate sixty years of marriage with a family dinner and public open house at their Riverside home. They wed April 17 1890 in St Marys Riverside and have six children sixteen grandchildren and continued farm life on a 300 acre homestead. Both are active parish members and long time residents with ties to St Marys church and local societies.
Riverside fire crews were called to the John C Dautremont residence when a laundry building caught fire around 8:30 AM. The family had begun washing and started a fire in the laundry stove, but the cause and extent of the damage are not fully stated.
The forest service radio laboratory in Portland Oregon has developed a bell-ringing radio that allows calls to be made with a method similar to telephone communication.
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.