Wolseley's Jibe at 'Mr. U. S. Grant'
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · United Kingdom
A small historical anecdote comparing British disdain for Grant's title to Lord Howe's famous slight of George Washington a century earlier.
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A COSTLY VICTORY
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A battlefield report on General Nieh's costly defeat of Prince Tuan's forces during the Boxer Rebellion, interwoven with a note on Li Hung Chang's uncertain departure from Canton.
LI HUNG CHANG'S ACTION
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A German report that Li Hung Chang, acting on a secret imperial edict naming Prince Tuan among the rebels, was dispatching thousands of troops toward Pekin.
DATE OF THE MASSACRE
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A short, chilling wire relaying an unconfirmed report that all foreigners in Pekin's besieged legations had been massacred.
Cheered by Campos
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Santiago, Cuba
A wire dispatch from the Cuban insurrection describes the arrival of a new Spanish commander, a skirmish near Guantanamo, and the grim fate of a band of rebel prisoners abandoned by their own leaders — a vivid, largely forgotten dispatch from the opening months of the Cuban war for independence.
HAVE A BIG PROGRAM
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Berlin, Germany
A dispatch from Berlin previewing a contentious Reichstag session over an anti-revolution bill, plus German diplomatic maneuvering on Nicaragua, the Sino-Japanese peace treaty, and Standard Oil's dealings with Russian oil interests.
First Skirmish at Sea
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Aland Islands, Sweden
Two terse wire bulletins mark the first naval engagement of the war in the Baltic and Italy's declaration of neutrality.
Borax--American and Foreign
Scientific American · January 19, 1867 · California
An 1867 survey of the borax trade explains how a newly discovered California lake deposit was poised to break a longstanding European monopoly on this essential chemical used in soldering and metalworking.
Opinion of the Attorney General in Gen. Howard's Case
The Cairo Bulletin · July 10, 1873 · Washington, D.C.
A dense legal opinion on the Freedmen's Bureau bonds scandal, weighing whether General Oliver Howard and his subordinates could be held liable for money stolen through forged bounty vouchers meant for black soldiers.
NEW UNIVERSITY HEAD
Mesa Free Press · November 12, 1897 · Tucson, Arizona
An interview with Arizona's territorial governor explaining the search for a new university president after the resignation of Rev. Howard Bliman, offering a window into the politics of shaping a young frontier university.
Preparations for Embarkation
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Tampa, Florida
As the Spanish-American War mobilization accelerated, seven transport ships stood ready at Fort Tampa to carry American troops, horses, and supplies to Cuba.
The Peasants Are Rising
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Odessa, Russia
Agrarian revolts spread through southern Russia as peasants destroyed landowners' estates near Elizabethgrad and Alexandria, a small dispatch capturing the unrest that preceded the 1905 Revolution.
Germans Defeated At Ossowetz Fort
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Ossowetz, Poland
A brief Russian dispatch claiming a German defeat at the Ossowetz fortress in Russian Poland — a small, largely forgotten episode of the Eastern Front's early fighting.
Delegate Wilson's Work
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Washington, District of Columbia
A North Carolina congressman lauds Arizona's territorial delegate J. F. Wilson for his tireless work pushing local measures and a statehood bill through a hostile Republican House.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A look back at a failed 1893 proposal to fund the University of Texas through a dedicated state tax, modeled on Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and other states — a reminder of how university financing was once hotly debated in Texas.
News About Transports
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Manila, Philippines
Routine but revealing dispatch on American troop transports moving between Manila and China amid the Boxer crisis, delayed by storms.
China Pays Off Her Debt
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · China
China completed payment of the final installment of its war indemnity to Japan, closing out a debt from the Sino-Japanese War.
Czar Rejects Press Law Petition
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · St. Petersburg, Russia
The Russian czar dismissed an appeal from seven journalists and writers seeking looser press restrictions, with a government commission ruling collective petitions illegal and defending the existing censorship regime.
The War's Toll Upon Horses
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · South Africa
A period reflection on how mechanization was pushing horses out of daily life even as the Boer War created a massive demand for them—and killed them by the thousands.
The Cost of Strong Drink
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · England
A fragment of a longer essay on the vast sums spent on alcohol in Britain, comparing the waste to squandered fuel in a steam engine and calling for a more searching inquiry into drink's toll on health, morals, and the public purse.