The Photographic Convention
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Buffalo, New York
A dispatch on the annual convention of the National Photographic Association, electing officers for the coming year.
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Now the Frenchman Wants to Learn English
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · Paris, France
A breezy 1913 dispatch on how Parisians of every class — from hotel waiters to washerwomen to smitten young men on the street — had become obsessed with practicing their English on American and British tourists, upending the old romance of foreign travel.
Giant Devil Fish on Exhibit at Local Museum
The Evening World · December 14, 1888
A garbled fragment describing a captured octopus put on display at a local museum, marveled at for its size, color and grip — a small window into how Victorian audiences gawked at sea monsters.
Stanford Graduate Weds
Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Phoenix, Arizona
A fragment of a wedding announcement noting the bride's academic credentials from Stanford University, cut off at the top of the page.
On the New Paris Fashions
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · New York, New York
A gossipy fashion letter from 1876 tracking the shift from ornate trimming to severe, tight-laced gowns and enormous bustles.
The Boy Who Would Not Drink
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876
A fragment of a temperance tale about a young drummer boy in the army who refuses a direct order to drink rum, choosing to honor a pledge made to his mother even at the risk of punishment.
On a Grave Lies the Site of Our Temple
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876
A fragment of serialized fiction — the ending of a melancholy funeral scene involving a mad old man, a coffin named Lilias, and a lover named Adam Forrester — printed without its opening, evidently a chapter from a longer romance.
On Work and Business
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878 · Charleston, South Carolina
A fragment of a personal essay urging diligence and early rising in business, using the writer's own start in Charleston commerce as an example of the value of hard work over idleness.
Getting Ready
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A short note that the Texas legislature's meeting halls have been readied for the upcoming session.
Anecdotes of Some Noted Men
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · England
A brief, fragmentary anecdote about the playwright Sheridan Knowles being teased for missing a dinner engagement — the story breaks off where the page ends.
The Way to Discourage Your Pastor
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878
A wry, moralizing piece reprinted from the Southern Methodist listing the ways church members unwittingly demoralize their preachers, aimed at ball-going, theater-attending congregants.
College Advertisement (Commercial College)
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · New Orleans, Louisiana
A garbled advertisement for a commercial college urging Southern young men to get a practical business education, framed in the era's regional rivalry rhetoric.
Rumford Almanac and Cook Book
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Providence, Rhode Island
A brief promotional notice offering a free almanac and cookbook from the Rumford Chemical Works, typical of the small advertising notices scattered through period newspapers.
TRUTH COMING OUT
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Moukden, China
A Russian report alleging that the Chinese emperor secretly ordered his troops to join the Boxers, and that Russian railway engineers in Manchuria were forced out despite pleading for military help.
Life Line Gun That Might Have Saved the Volturno's Passengers Quickly
The Sun · November 16, 1913
An inventor's breech-loading rescue gun, already fitted to two U.S. revenue cutters, could have saved lives on the burning liner Volturno and the wrecked Valencia — a forgotten piece of early maritime rescue technology.
BEFORE THEIR FALL
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Shanghai, China
A prewired warning from an American consul in Shanghai, sent just before the fall of the Pekin legations, expressing fear for the ministers trapped inside.
Dr. Manning's Sermon
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Rome, Italy
A Dublin correspondent's dispatch describes an unusually large gathering of Irish clergy, laity, and emigrants from around the world at Rome's Irish Franciscan convent for St. Patrick's Day, 1870, and reproduces much of Archbishop Manning's sermon touching on Ireland's fidelity to Rome and the coming Vatican Council — a vivid, now largely forgotten scene from the eve of Vatican I.
Big Gun Arrives to Defend San Diego Harbor
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · San Diego, California
A 67,000-pound rifle shipped from a New York arsenal became the first of three massive coastal guns being installed at Point Loma to guard San Diego against foreign naval attack — a glimpse of America's turn-of-the-century coastal defense buildup.
Income Tax Law Published in England
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · London, England
A notice that Britain's foreign office published the terms of the new United States income tax law for the benefit of British residents earning American income, extending the filing deadline to April 15.
Teachers' Retreats
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Eureka Springs, Arkansas
A promotional dispatch on a new association offering affordable vacation retreats for American and Canadian teachers, complete with the name of Austin's own local recruiter.