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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876
A wandering allegorical tale of two lovers seeking a place free of sorrow to build their 'Temple of Happiness'—only to learn that joy and grief are inseparable. This is a reprint of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, restored here from a damaged newspaper scan.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · San Francisco, California
News from San Francisco reports the arrival of a steamer, grim word on victims of the wrecked steamer George S. Wright, and figures on trade with Central America and the mounting debt of the Central Pacific Railroad.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A dispatch marking the 80th birthday of Pope Pius IX and the diplomatic ceremony surrounding French ambassadorial credentials, amid hostile coverage from the revolutionary press.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Kasheng, China
Presbyterian missionaries in central China report calm, a small reassurance amid the wider Boxer panic.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A biting note on the lawyer for Charles Guiteau, Garfield's assassin, asking Congress to compensate him for defending his notorious client.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885
A transatlantic crossing turned into a week of gales and mechanical crisis when the Alaska's rudder snapped, forcing another liner to tow her into port.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Guilford, Vermont, USA
The funeral of a Vermont Civil War general was marked by a fierce snowstorm and an unusual request that his body lie unburied for ten days before final interment beside his mother in Guilford.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Madrid, Spain
A fragment of a dispatch reporting that a Spanish court ordered the arrest of two newspaper directors in Madrid for allegedly inciting soldiers, amid fears of unrest.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Berlin, Germany
A short financial dispatch on China's post-war borrowing from German banks, part of the scramble by foreign powers to gain financial leverage over Beijing after its defeat by Japan.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
British officials sidestep questions about a diplomatic ultimatum to Nicaragua, a minor but telling episode in Britain's gunboat diplomacy of the 1890s.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Shanghai, China
A brief dispatch names five Chinese cities reportedly chosen to be opened to foreign commerce as the Sino-Japanese peace terms took shape.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Vermont
Vermont's State Board of Agriculture announces the creation of only the second agricultural experiment station in North America, to be run unpaid by Prof. Henry M. Seely — a quiet founding moment for American agricultural science.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Washington, District of Columbia
The director of the U.S. Mint outlines a plan to flood the country with new silver dimes, quarters and halves to retire the worn paper "fractional currency" — a forgotten piece of the long, awkward transition back to metallic money after the Civil War.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Danbury, Connecticut
A cheeky, previously unpublished anecdote about a young P. T. Barnum's clandestine courtship — and the friend who sabotaged his midnight exit with disastrous, cistern-shaped results.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Columbia, Missouri, USA
A wonderfully odd bit of college sports history: the University of Missouri football team, touring Texas, extends its trip into Mexico without permission to play before President Porfirio Diaz, prompting the faculty to threaten to tattle to the players' parents.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
Texas's superintendent of public buildings delivers his annual report to the governor, detailing repairs to the state capitol and warning of dangerous conditions at the deaf and dumb institute and other state buildings.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873
A column of brief personal notices from July 1873 tracking the doings of notable figures of the day — from Jefferson Davis to a scandalous murderer awaiting his cell at Sing Sing.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Washington, District of Columbia
Routine dispatch on cabinet movements and federal appointments, including a commission to investigate an Indian massacre near Rawlins in Wyoming Territory.
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A quiet, observant sketch of newly landed Scandinavian, German and Russian immigrants waiting inside Castle Garden — their dress, their silence, the deference of the women — offers a rare glimpse of ordinary arrival rather than the usual statistics.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900
A grab-bag of wire-service snippets from a single July day in 1900 — Ibsen's illness, a Hawaiian court appointment, Bryan and Stevenson's notification date, a deadly Iowa storm, a harbor collision, an Elks convention, and shipping-trade politics — a snapshot of the news cycle's texture at the turn of the century.
