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The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
Two minor thefts reported to Austin's Central police station on the same evening — blankets and shoes taken from local stores — a tiny record of everyday small-town crime.
Mesa Free Press · November 26, 1897 · Mesa City, Arizona
A brief published note of gratitude from the Wadlington family following the death of their young son, printed alongside the paper's own account of the tragedy.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · San Antonio, Texas
A cheerful note about a doctor's return from ranch country in Bandera and Kerr counties, plus a friendly gift left at his hotel — a snapshot of small-town Texas sociability.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
Two railroad officials from Waco married two sisters from Tennessee in a joint ceremony at their uncle's Austin home, a small society item capturing a holiday-season wedding now utterly forgotten.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
A small human-interest note on a departing sheriff gifted a gold and silver pistol by courthouse officials before heading home to Tennessee for the holidays.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
A brief charitable appeal on behalf of a struggling Austin family, the Matscheks, asking local aid societies for help.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
A wry newsroom anecdote about a subscriber who canceled his paper over a strangely petty complaint, offering a glimpse of 1890s newspaper office humor.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Chicago, Illinois
A tongue-in-cheek melodrama, reprinted from the Chicago Tribune, mocking the era's leap-year courtship jokes with overwrought dialogue between reluctant lovers.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · San Francisco, California
A small trading schooner bound for Alaska lost its compass in a Pacific storm, and its captain steered home by the stars in a feat seafaring men called marvelous — a forgotten piece of maritime heroism.
Mesa Free Press · November 26, 1897 · Mesa City, Arizona
A brief, sorrowful account of a toddler's accidental poisoning death in Mesa in 1897 — an ordinary tragedy of the kind local papers of the era recorded with real tenderness, long since lost to history.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · San Antonio, Texas
An elderly, unidentified man died at the city hospital and was found to suffer from a rare skin disease resembling fish scales, a strange medical footnote from 1895 San Antonio.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Perth, Canada
A strange human-interest account of a deranged young man who abandoned society decades earlier to live naked in the woods near Perth, Ontario, surviving the bitter Canadian winters unclothed.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Leona River area, Texas
Two San Antonio men found a strange chocolate-brown pebble in a plowed field near the Leona River, which a local doctor identified as a meteorite fragment.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · San Antonio, Texas
A recap of a hard-fought three-game bowling match between two San Antonio amateur teams, the Turners and the Missions, with full lineups and scores preserved.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · Ragusa, Ottoman Empire
Una breve nota necrológica sobre la muerte de un diplomático italiano destacado en los Balcanes, un pequeño rastro de la vasta red consular del siglo XIX ya perdida en el olvido.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
A rundown of new lawsuits filed in Austin's district court, including a Bexar county man's damage suit against the city after he tripped over an unattended block of stone on Sixth Street.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A brief death notice roundup from Austin, recording the passing of a minister's wife and two infant children in a single day.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Woodford, Vermont
A short but vivid Vermont hunting anecdote: one man went for help with a treed bear, and his impatient partner finished the job himself.
Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Mesa City, Arizona
A legal notice from a Mesa City rancher seeking the owner of a stray horse and payment of pasturage fees, offering a glimpse of frontier property law in practice.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas, USA
A report on a well-attended quarterly student recital at the Driskill Hotel, with the evening's program of songs, duets, and recitations.
