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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Washington, D.C.
Drawing on John Quincy Adams's published diary, this piece recounts a nearly physical brawl between President Monroe and Treasury Secretary William Crawford, plus Adams's blistering private assessments of Crawford and Calhoun.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Washington, D.C.
The War Department announced a plan to organize the regular and volunteer armies into seven army corps as the United States mobilized for war with Spain.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · New Orleans, Louisiana
An early report on the finances of the 1884-85 New Orleans World's Fair shows heavy losses from bad weather and construction costs, an early sign of the exposition's troubled finish.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas, USA
State officials finish tallying the November vote on two proposed constitutional amendments—one on school fund investment, the other on residency requirements for suffrage—with only the latter passing.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873 · Bilbao, Spain
During the Carlist civil war in Spain, the pretender Don Carlos advances on Bilbao and prepares to close its port with mines once captured.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A short political item on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering over who would be named Chief Justice of the United States, naming Senator Howe as a fallback should Roscoe Conkling decline.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Republican party leaders quietly meet in Philadelphia, reportedly to settle national committee accounts.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Washington, D.C.
The inaugural committee assures the public that Washington has plenty of lodging and dining capacity for the crowds expected at the presidential inauguration.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Taku, China
A short wire report that Japanese warships were searching vessels near Taku for war contraband, a glimpse of the First Sino-Japanese War's naval dimension.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Austin, Texas
A dispatch from the Texas legislature detailing appropriations for the executive office, the governor's mansion, and pending bills on fire insurance regulation and railroad passes for lawmakers.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · New York, New York
A widely-told anecdote about department store magnate A. T. Stewart, tracing his rise from a thread-and-needle shop to a fortune so vast he could forgive a fifty-million-dollar government debt with a stroke of the pen.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Versailles, France
A dispatch from France reporting an uproar in the National Assembly after Léon Gambetta rose to defend a controversial speech, a small window into the turbulent early politics of the Third Republic.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Chicago, Illinois
An 1897 editorial exposes how gambling and vending slot machines were quietly draining millions from ordinary people in Chicago, arguing both kinds should be outlawed—an early warning about a technology that would haunt American cities for a century.
Mesa Free Press · November 12, 1897 · Arizona
A national business-conditions roundup covering trade, crops, and commerce in the Southern California and Arizona district, capturing the anxious optimism of the post-panic 1890s economy.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · New York, New York
A reprint of the eccentric, self-mocking marriage announcement that James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald, published in his own paper in 1840—an early and strange piece of newspaper self-promotion.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A sharp editorial jab at Congress for wasting time and then rushing legislation in hastily called extra sessions.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
A theatrical roundup from London reports W. S. Gilbert is at work on a new opera inspired by his Jamaica travels, alongside reviews of a crowded Easter week on the London stage and gossip about actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell's next move.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Montpelier, Vermont
A brief item from a Vermont political paper on the likely Republican convention delegates from the state, with a wry aside about one senator's habits.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Lewistown, Montana
A miscellany of short opinion items from the editor's desk touching on a local murder reward, the meat trust trial, women soldiers in Missouri, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, upcoming elections, drought and disease, Roosevelt's submarine rumor, Iowa's declining population, a rediscovered Wyoming mine, and Russia's new legislative manifesto — a snapshot of what mattered to a small-town Montana editor in late summer 1905.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900
A brief 1900 notice on a change to postal policy allowing money orders to be cashed at any first or second class post office, not just the one named on the order.
