The task of the article is to study the use of metaphors, metonymies, and other figurative patterns of thought in the available issues of “Kurzemes Vārds” of 1918 and 1919, exploring the construction of meaning. The theoretical framework of this article is based on cognitive linguistics and cognitive stylistics, where metaphors and other stylistic techniques are natural mechanisms of thought expression. Language reflects our experience and perception of the world, and metaphors are expressed in language because they originally reside in our minds (Lakoff and Johnson [1980] 2003, 3–5). “Kurzemes Vārds” is a newspaper intended for a wide range of readers, and it reflects the way of expression of thoughts in 1918 and 1919; thus, the analysis of authentic texts shows that figurative means of expression are not only imaginative or picturesque, but they are a natural, everyday phenomenon of language. Metaphors, metonymies, and other means of expression of figurative thought are easy to find in large numbers: almost every issue of “Kurzemes Vārds” has a considerable number of different figurative patterns of thought. In the analysed examples, the number of cases where, for example, metaphor or personification acts as the only figurative pattern of thought, creating meaning in one stylistic use, is twice less (four cases) than the combinations of figurative patterns of thought creating meaning together (eight cases), which leads to a conclusion that combinations are more common. In several cases of personification, it is a metonymy that reveals the connection of conceptual metaphor with personification. The question of combinations of figurative patterns and their interaction calls for future research.