Resolution Defeated
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Columbus, Ohio
A brief note on the failure of a proposal to adjourn Ohio's constitutional convention and reconvene it in Cincinnati.
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Prince Humbert
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A brief note on rumors that the Catholic heir to the Italian throne might act as godfather at a Protestant christening, raising questions of religious propriety.
A Disgrace to the Force
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A drunken city policeman is stripped of his badge on the spot after assaulting a saloonkeeper and his wife and insulting another woman in the street — a brisk little scandal about police misconduct in 1888 New York.
Ingalls on the Folly of Extra Sessions
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A fragment of Senate commentary in which Senator Ingalls warns that an extra session of Congress would harm the country's business interests, amid other unrelated political news.
Yellow Fever Scare Along Southern Pacific Line Dismissed
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Colton, Arizona
Fears that yellow fever might spread from Texas into Arizona and California via the Southern Pacific railroad were quietly waved off by the state board of health — a small but telling episode in the era's anxious railroad-borne epidemic panics.
Severe Snow Blocks the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA
A brutal winter storm derailed a freight engine and stranded trains for hours — a small but telling snapshot of how weather crippled 19th-century rail travel.
The President's Cheap Suit
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · London, England
A London newspaper's interview with an American consul recounts a jokey exchange with President Roosevelt about the price of their summer suits — a light bit of transatlantic celebrity gossip reprinted for American readers.
Patent Office Decision on Strip Tickets
Scientific American · August 4, 1877
A dry but telling glimpse into 1870s patent law, as the Patent Office ruled against a street railway ticket redemption scheme as unoriginal.
A Curious Dinner Party in France
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Pithiviers, France
A retired London theatre machinist buys a French country house and turns a dinner party for his new neighbors into a startling display of stage trickery.
What It Cost to Borrow a Book in Medieval Paris
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Paris, France
A curious historical footnote on the earliest regulated book-lending trade in Paris, when scholars paid the University's set rates to borrow manuscripts they could not afford to buy.
Traditions Relating to Birds and Animals
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
A Victorian folklorist traces why robins, owls, and crowing hens are freighted with omens across England, Germany, and China, arguing that superstition, not mythology, came first—a charming piece of comparative anthropology from 1876.
"Those Naughty Methodists—Just like Them."
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878
A Methodist writer answers a Presbyterian minister's complaint that Union Sunday Schools were being co-opted by Methodist Presiding Elders, using the spat to defend the value of interdenominational Sunday schools.
Evangelists
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878 · Marion, South Carolina
A Methodist writer parses the biblical role of "evangelist" and offers a sharp critique of the lay revivalist movement of the 1870s, warning against shallow professions of faith mistaken for conversion.
A Merchant's Tribute to Farm Life
Southern Christian Advocate · September 21, 1878 · Nacoochee, Georgia
A traveling merchant reflects on the virtues of farming and describes taking his children to his mountain home each summer to toughen them up with country life.
Taken Off
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas, USA
A local rail line will drop its daily express service between San Antonio and Taylor after December 31, citing light business.
Lumber Corporation Charter Filed
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Crockett, Texas
A brief notice of a new East Texas lumber corporation's charter filing, capitalized at $100,000, with its business purpose and list of incorporators.
Going to Europe
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas, USA
A prominent Austin German citizen and scientist departs for a year-long world tour, culminating in an invitation-only scientific congress hosted by the Russian czar.
John Bright's Wish
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Manchester, England
A brief anecdote about the British statesman John Bright musing, over dinner, about wanting to return fifty years after his death to see what America would become — a small window into how Victorian Britons viewed the young republic's prospects.
Death of Gen. B. M. Bradford
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Crawfordsville, Mississippi
A Confederate veteran who fought at Buena Vista and led Mississippi troops in the Mexican War has died in Mississippi, one of many small obituary notices filling the wire columns of the day.
The Peabody Fund in Healthy Condition
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · New York, New York
A report on the Peabody Fund's support of Southern schools notes encouraging progress in the postwar South.