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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A pointed defense of Ulysses S. Grant against General Rosecrans's accusation that Grant secretly authored his own flattering biography, and against Rosecrans's earlier attempt to block Grant's retirement honors.
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A roundup of prizefighting news and gossip from 1888, touching on a possible Mitchell-Dempsey bout, McAuliffe's training schedule, a recollection of an old bare-knuckle championship fight on the Potomac, and John L. Sullivan's plans to appear as master of ceremonies after his illness.
Mesa Free Press · November 26, 1897
A trade-press review of the wool market in late 1897 offers a snapshot of speculative caution and steady prices for an industry the paper's readers depended on.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · New York, New York
The paper condemns the growing habit of holding prize-fights on Sundays in New York and other cities.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Djellegoozan, Ottoman Empire
An investigative dispatch on the international commission probing the Armenian massacres, describing horrific testimony about a mass killing at Djellegoozan and the diplomatic pressure it added to demands for reform in the Ottoman Empire.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Poland
A German military commentator's account of a major eastern-front offensive against Russian forces in Poland during the First World War, complete with claims of renewed Austro-Hungarian bombardment at Przemysl.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Pretoria, South Africa
Lord Roberts reports British columns converging in the Boer War, closing off communication between Transvaal forces and the Orange River colony.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Washington, D.C.
Amid rumors that European powers might intervene between the United States and Spain, diplomats from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia all denied any such moves were under discussion.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Dubat, Sudan
A dispatch from the Nile campaign describes the perilous river rescue of Colonel Wilson's party by Lord Charles Beresford under enemy fire, part of the failed relief effort for Khartoum.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, D.C.
A heated House debate over a bill to place the ailing, impoverished Ulysses S. Grant on the retired military list, with members sparring over whether the measure was a political trap or a genuine tribute to his service.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Brooklyn, New York
During the church council convened to weigh the charges surrounding Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church, members voted to formally invite two prominent Brooklyn clergymen to appear not as witnesses but as brethren — a small procedural moment inside one of the era's biggest religious scandals.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Nashville, Tennessee
A grim roundup of daily cholera death tolls from four river cities, illustrating how the 1873 epidemic was tracked and reported almost like a market report.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Indianola, Iowa
A landmark circumstantial-evidence murder trial ended with Margaret Hossack convicted of killing her husband with an axe after decades of marital strife, a case that later inspired Susan Glaspell's famous play "Trifles."
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · New York, New York
An 1885 warning that European governments were quietly dumping their sick, elderly, and destitute onto American shores to avoid the cost of caring for them at home — a forgotten chapter in the long American argument over who gets let in.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · London, England
A rundown of new appointments in the Gladstone government, including cabinet seats and command of the Suakim-Berber expedition.
Scientific American · July 3, 1886 · New York, New York
A look back at how gas manufacturing transformed from a stodgy monopoly into a cutthroat, innovation-driven business over twelve years, as water gas and naphtha upended old coal-gas practices in American cities.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Washington, District of Columbia
A brief report on a Civil War veterans' pension bill, endorsed by the Grand Army of the Republic, moving through the House after Senate passage.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873 · New York, New York
A wire report disputes rumors that financier Daniel Drew engineered a corner on Erie Railway stock, blaming the squeeze instead on London shareholders unloading shares into a rising American market.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · New York, New York
A detailed account of the Orange Order's annual parade through New York, held under heavy police escort just two years after the deadly Orange riots of 1871 — a reminder of how fraught these marches remained.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary
The story of Princess Stephanie, widow of the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who scandalized European royalty by renouncing her rank to marry for love—separating her permanently from her own daughter.
