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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876
A sailor's reminiscence of a mischievous ship's monkey named Jacko, who stole warmth, food, tobacco, and even the ship's Articles of War, ending his days in the assault on Sebastopol.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Olympia, Greece
Two unrelated fillers of the day: a joking item about an over-named puppy in Vermont, and news of an archaeological find at Olympia.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876
A children's temperance-page morality tale about a bootblack who refuses to work for a customer who swears at him, and ultimately shames the young man into reconsidering his language.
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878
A tongue-in-cheek letter mocking the supposed ease of editing a weekly religious newspaper, skewering obituary padding, endless serials, and printed feuds among clergy.
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878 · Charleston, South Carolina
A devotional poem printed in a Methodist weekly, offering the writer's meditations on heaven as a refuge from earthly grief and storm.
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878 · Jerusalem
A Sunday-school lesson commentary on Luke 11:5-18, exploring the parable of the importunate friend as a model for persistent, earnest prayer.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885
An 1885 editorial observes that the valentine trade was already fading, an odd little snapshot of changing Victorian customs.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876
A traveling map salesman turns an attempted highway robbery into a successful sales pitch to the very bandits who tried to rob him.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
Austin's football players return from a trip to Mexico buzzing with excitement, a small glimpse of early amateur sport travel.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · California
After a two-week battle, San Diego County officials sided with ranchers over a land company that had tried to nearly double irrigation water rates — a forgotten local skirmish over who controls water in the arid West.
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A young bride is beaten senseless and gagged by burglars who slip into her father-in-law's Houston Street house at midday and make off with her rings and earrings — a vivid, fully told burglary story with a disputed identification at its close.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Los Angeles, California
The bondholders of the famous Mt. Lowe mountain railway won a court order forcing the sale of the line's property, an early sign of financial trouble for one of Southern California's celebrated scenic railways.
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Columbia, South Carolina
South Carolina's Anti-Blease political factions gathered to rally support against Governor Cole Blease's allies ahead of the August primary, revealing the bitter internal Democratic Party fight of the era.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Burlington, Vermont
A city water committee defends its slow, methodical investigation into Burlington's contaminated ice and water supply, publishing chemical analyses that found the ice cut near the sewer outlet unfit for human use amid a typhoid scare.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Bocas del Toro, Colombia
A dispatch reporting the death of the Mexican revolutionary and border raider Catarino Garza during a bloody rebel assault on a Panamanian coastal town — a violent, half-forgotten postscript to a man whose earlier border war against Porfirio Díaz once drew U.S. Army attention.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A brief confirmation, via Belgian diplomatic channels, that imperial troops under General Nieh had beaten back Boxer rebels near Pekin.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Fall River, Massachusetts
A forgotten episode of ethnic conflict within American Catholicism: a French-Canadian parish in Fall River was excommunicated en masse and its church closed rather than accept an Irish priest.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A fast-moving downtown fire guts a bank, a college, and several storefronts in the heart of Pittsburgh, sending panicked students fleeing a burning college building — a dramatic local disaster now entirely forgotten.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Canton, China
A brief dispatch reporting a devastating plague outbreak in China alongside a smallpox scare aboard an American warship — a stark reminder of the disease conditions accompanying foreign military occupation.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Vietnam
A devotional account, likely drawn from a French Catholic source, retells the life and 1861 execution in Tonquin (Vietnam) of the young French missionary Théophane Vénard, one of many priests sent out by the Paris seminary of the Missions Etrangères during a period of fierce anti-Christian persecution in Indochina.
