One reads news papers and such from the aforementioned late 1800s to early 1900s.
I notice a certain grammar, or feel to the cadence of the speech from this period. I'm curious as to how, grammar wise (and possibly speech wise?), their writing and speech differ from today's writing and speech.
Many of these differences are simply stylistic. Different countries and different time periods have different traditions/norms for newspaper article writing. Certain phrases fall out of style while others become more accepted.
There's a journal article from 1983 which presents a study of readability which points to these differing traditions, at least from the perspective of national traditions. Other research has been done on stylistic changes in headlines.
There's surely more to be found as far as analysis, but I'd have to do some digging to get you specific studies. Generally though, it all comes down to shifting stylistic traditions.
It's "constructs", sorry for the misspelling. "More wine waiter!"