This paper presents the methodologies to extract the headline and illustrations from a historical newspaper for storytelling to support digital scholarship. It explored the ways in which new digital tools can facilitate the understanding of the newspaper content in the setting of time and space, "The Hongkong News" was selected from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper for the case study owing to its uniqueness in historical value towards the scholars. The proposed methodologies were evaluated in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) with scraping and Deep Learning Object Detection models. Two visualization products were developed to showcase the feasibility of our proposed methods to serve the storytelling purpose.