The New Fifty-Cent Note
The Cairo Bulletin · July 10, 1873 · Washington, D.C.
A dry but oddly fascinating Treasury Department bulletin describing the design of a new fractional currency note down to its engraving and watermark details.
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The Life of St. Stanislas Kostka
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 10, 1870 · Rome, Italy
A hagiographic account of the young Polish Jesuit novice St. Stanislas Kostka — his persecution by his brother, his secret vocation, flight to join the Jesuits, and his early death — reprinted in a Catholic weekly for its readers' edification.
The South's Great Shooting Preserves
The Sun · November 16, 1913
A tour of the exclusive private hunting preserves of the American South, where wealthy businessmen, bankers, and even the Secretary of State pursued wild turkey, quail, deer, and duck on vast private estates.
With Dog and Gun in Great Game Preserves of South
The Sun · November 16, 1913
A colorful 1913 dispatch tours the private shooting preserves of wealthy Northerners in the American South, mixing hunting lore, sporting etiquette, and profiles of millionaire sportsmen like Harry Payne Whitney and the late Senator Quay.
Craze for Silhouettes Grips European Nobility
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · London, England
A young American artist's chance encounter with King Edward VII sparked a European society craze for silhouette portraiture, an old art form suddenly revived among royalty and nobility.
Post-Offices Outside the Civil Service Law
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885
A brief editorial note on how few of the nation's post offices actually fell under the new civil service reform statute.
What They Want: Some of the Things Desired for Christmas Stockings
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A playful Evening World feature polls New York's political, legal and theatrical notables on what they'd like Santa to leave in their Christmas stockings — and the tongue-in-cheek answers double as sly commentary on city politics and personal ambition.
Gathered in Highways
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A slice of New York street-level reporting from 1888: saloon-keepers sweetening their free lunch counters with hot clam broth to keep customers happy, and a look at the still-novel craze for tobogganing sweeping the city's Winter sportsmen.
Warning Against Covetousness
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878 · Jerusalem
A Sunday-school Bible study on Luke's parable of the rich man's barns, warning against covetousness and drawing a distinction between wealth of character and wealth of property — a glimpse into the era's Sunday-school curriculum.
Lieut. Kislingbury's Diary Given to Inspection
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Cape Sabine, Arctic
Newly released diary pages from a doomed member of the Greely Arctic expedition expose months of bitter feuding, arrest, and near-mutiny between Lieut. Kislingbury and his commander at the height of a survival crisis at Cape Sabine — a raw, human coda to one of the era's most famous polar disasters.
SITUATION DESPERATE
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Tien Tsin, China
A grim wartime dispatch reporting that foreign forces at Tien Tsin, besieged and short of reinforcements, expect to have to abandon the city.
A Startling Message
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Tientsin, China
A cablegram to a Methodist missionary society hints at the massacre of dozens of missionaries in Tien Tsin during the Boxer uprising.
Two Armies Surrender
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Manila, Philippines
Dispatches from the closing phase of the Philippine-American War describe mass surrenders of Filipino insurgents, the appointment of a former rebel commander as a well-paid colonial governor, and an almost farcical rumor circulating among exiled Filipino nationalists in London that General MacArthur was torturing Aguinaldo.
Teutons Protest to the President
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Washington, District of Columbia
German and Austrian diplomats formally protest to the U.S. State Department that American shipyards are secretly building submarine components for Britain and sending them to Canada for assembly, an early flashpoint over American neutrality in the World War.
Eight Whaling Ships Trapped in Arctic Ice at Point Barrow
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Point Barrow, Alaska
Word that eight American whaling vessels were icebound off Alaska with hundreds of crewmen aboard prompted San Francisco's business community to appeal directly to the President for a rescue mission.
EXTRA MEN REDUCED
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · St. Louis, Missouri
As the St. Louis streetcar strike violence subsides, police scale back their armed posse while preparing extra forces for Fourth of July trouble.
Coalition Government
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · London, England
A brief wartime dispatch reports British political leaders discussing a possible coalition government as Europe slides toward war.
INCOME TAX PLANK
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Indianapolis, Indiana
A signed interview from a Democratic resolutions committee member explaining, in exculpatory detail, how an income tax plank was accidentally dropped from the 1900 Kansas City platform.
Seizure of the LaFayette
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Key West, Florida
The French steamer LaFayette, seized by American forces, was quickly released after officials realized her capture violated orders already issued to allow her safe passage under a diplomatic courtesy arrangement with France.
Speculation Over Cleveland's Cabinet Choices
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
Gossip and speculation ahead of Grover Cleveland's inauguration about who would fill his cabinet, including Wisconsin's Col. William F. Vilas.