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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · New York, New York
A fragment reporting that the Gold Democrats, the sound-money faction that broke from the party in 1896, decided against running their own ticket in 1900 after failing to get electors on the New York ballot.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Italy
Bread riots and clashes between mobs and police prompted martial law across Tuscany, with anger directed especially at grain speculators.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Honolulu, Hawaii
A garbled dispatch from Hawaii describes fears that a fresh shipment of arms was being smuggled onto Oahu as part of a filibustering plot, alongside news of a major banking takeover and a push to reform land-title law to attract American settlers.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Crawfordville, Ohio
A strange follow-up in the sensational Charlie Ross kidnapping saga, describing how a boy in an obscure Ohio village was suspected of being the famous missing child, and how his photograph was sent to the real Ross family for comparison.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
Superintendent Worsham's annual report on the state's lunatic asylum details patient numbers, discharge and death rates, and warns that severe overcrowding is forcing the state to turn away hundreds of chronic cases.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873 · St. Louis, Missouri
A weekly mortality report shows deaths rising sharply in St. Louis, with cholera and cholera morbus taking a heavy toll, especially among young children.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870
A fragment of a sermon report—badly damaged by scanning—in which an unnamed archbishop defends the independence of the Irish bishops at what appears to be the First Vatican Council, urging prayer to St. Patrick and commending the community of St. Isidore's.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · France
A fragment of a scientific chronicle tracing the long and stumbling path from a passing notion of the abbé Barthélémy to the invention of the electric telegraph by Morse and Wheatstone, showing how many decades of frustrated trials preceded the technology that would change the world.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885
An 1885 editorial complains that Canadian ports are being used as a back door for sick and destitute European immigrants who then drift into New York and New England, and calls for a real enforcement board at every port of entry.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Brighton, United Kingdom
An account of a lecture by the sanitary reformer Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, who imagined a fully engineered utopian city — subways, glazed brick, no cellars, no tobacco — designed to slash death rates and radically extend human life.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Chickamauga Park, Georgia
The Twenty-fifth infantry departed camp for Tampa under Colonel Kurt, as troops prepared for possible embarkation to Cuba amid intense heat and long drills.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885
A warning editorial about the dangerously flammable condition of many asylums and orphanages, prompted by a spate of recent fires at such institutions.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Bennington, Vermont, USA
A railroad superintendent's death drew a special train of mourners and thousands of onlookers in Bennington, an event now entirely forgotten but locally enormous at the time.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900
A prominent Episcopal clergyman argues the institutional church of 1900 has abandoned the teachings of Jesus in favor of commercialism and the comfort of the well-to-do, a sharp bit of turn-of-the-century religious self-criticism.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Cape Nome, Alaska
A British steamer accused of landing an illicit cargo at Cape Nome and evading a U.S. revenue cutter draws federal attention — the story is cut off by the page's edge.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Chicago, Illinois
A fourteen-year-old Catholic orphan sued a Chicago public school for expelling him after he refused, on religious grounds, to join in its Protestant prayer exercises — an early skirmish in America's long fight over religion in public schools.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Montana, USA
A reprinted piece from Goodwin's Weekly celebrates the surge of eastern migrants settling the western states, predicting a coming census will reveal astonishing population growth driven by irrigation, mining, and cheap land.
Scientific American · January 19, 1867 · Bayonne, New Jersey
A look at an early American attempt to build a self-propelling steam road carriage adaptable to farm work, at a time when traction engines were common in England but rare in the U.S.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Chitral, India
A dispatch on the besieged British garrison at Chitral, part of the frontier conflicts on British India's northwest border in 1895.
Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Arizona
An editorial urges Arizona Territory voters to press county conventions on the perennial fights over relocating the territorial prison and carving out new counties, warning legislators against backroom "trading" on the issues.
