Hina Zaidi looks through The Pioneer Press.

Using gloved hands, Hina Zaidi braces each side of a brittle newspaper’s pages as she turns them.

On the second page of the yellowed paper, above an announcement declaring the discovery of the North Pole, she reads a headline that surprises her: “Indian Wife Beater Given Stiff Sentence.”

“And then you look at the year, and you’re like ‘Oh, 1909,’ then it sort of makes sense,” Zaidi said.…