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The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · London, United Kingdom
Foreign wire items: Queen Victoria's formal reply favoring international arbitration read to the House of Commons, a harsh order from the Carlist pretender Don Carlos in Spain, and news of ex-Queen Isabella's impending arrival in Brussels.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · London, England
A dispatch on Lord Rosebery's lingering insomnia after influenza, a small window into the health troubles of a sitting British prime minister.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Rome, Italy
A dispatch on the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for a monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Rome, attended by huge crowds.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Rome, Italy
An essayist reflects on the catacombs of Rome as the birthplace of early Christian art and the new civilization that grew from persecution, poverty, and faith.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A brief note reporting the Archbishop of Toronto's directive barring priests from turning church pulpits into platforms for partisan election campaigning.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
Texas Governor Charles Culberson, back from a trip to Michigan, announced that no pardon applications would be considered until after the legislature convened, hinting at a backlog of requests.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885
A wry one-line jab comparing President-elect Cleveland's disregard of unsolicited advice to that of any newspaper editor.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · England
A brief, recovered anecdote from Walton's life of George Herbert describing the poet's last act - calling for his instrument to sing a hymn shortly before he died.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897
A period roundup column of short national and international news bulletins, from a temperance leader's re-election to a hotel fire and a diplomatic seal treaty, offering a snapshot of what editors thought worth a line in November 1897.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Burlington, Vermont
A bishop's formal Lenten rules for Catholic parishioners in Vermont, spelling out fasting, abstinence, and devotional obligations for the season.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876
A learned essay, reprinted from the Fortnightly Review, compares how ancient and modern peoples regarded mortality, drawing on Lessing, Bacon, Byron, and Dr. Johnson to argue that classical culture faced death with less dread than the modern age.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · England
A collection of gossipy literary anecdotes about Lord Byron, drawn from period memoirs, showing the poet's cruelty toward his wife Lady Byron and his acid wit toward society women.
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878
A concise, quotation-heavy explainer, reprinted from the Christian Union, laying out the classic five points of Calvinist doctrine for a curious reader.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905
A moral verse by the popular poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, reprinted from Cosmopolitan Magazine, likening life's journey to a crowded streetcar ride.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A blow-by-blow account of the procedural fight in Congress after Vice-President Edmunds personally declared Grover Cleveland elected while counting the electoral vote, a dispute over presidential authority long since forgotten.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Washington, District of Columbia
An 1873 editorial warns that the political machine forming around President Grant is less the Republican Party than a personal faction bent on securing him a third term, foreshadowing the era's long controversy over presidential term limits.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A careful constitutional explainer on whether the President of the Senate has any authority to formally declare a presidential election's result, tracing the dispute back to the disputed Hayes-Tilden count of 1877.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · Morocco
A florid historical retelling of the 1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quibir in Morocco, where the kings of Portugal and Morocco perished, and the tragic exile of the widowed Portuguese queen — a piece of popular history for readers of this Spanish-language Los Angeles paper, cut off mid-story by the page's end.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · United Kingdom
A tart editorial reminder that premature obituaries for General Gordon, still unconfirmed dead, left little left to say should he actually perish.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A gossipy local column touching on a supposed buried treasure in Pease Park, a neighborhood push to secede from the city, disappointed society hopes for an inaugural ball, and a rundown of superstitions supposedly defied by the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
