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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
A behind-the-scenes look at the horse-trading and rivalries convulsing Grover Cleveland's incoming cabinet, as Democratic factions maneuver over posts from Secretary of State to Attorney-General.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · New York, New York
A national roundup of the November 1897 off-year elections, headlined by Tammany's Robert Van Wyck sweeping the first mayoral race of the newly consolidated Greater New York.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Lincoln, Nebraska
A quiet dispatch on William Jennings Bryan's schedule ahead of his formal notification of the Democratic presidential nomination, showing the candidate at work on campaign material.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · London, United Kingdom
A London dispatch questions reports that Boer General Botha had reopened peace talks with the British, noting former Boer President Kruger's continued insistence on independence.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Amiens, France
An interview with the aging Jules Verne, who muses on how his fictional submarines and flying machines have become real, and predicts the automobile will reverse the drift of population from country to city.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · United Kingdom
A sweeping critical essay, evidently by James Russell Lowell, weighing Wordsworth's genius against Milton's and explaining why the poet of the sonnet still shapes how English speakers talk about nature and the self.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · India
An 1876 primer on the life of the Buddha and the global reach of Buddhism, complete with the era's best guesses at comparative world religious statistics — a snapshot of how curious Victorians understood a faith then largely unfamiliar to Western readers.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Mount Vernon, Virginia
A short 1876 notice describing plans to shore up Washington's decaying Mount Vernon mansion ahead of an expected wave of Centennial Exposition visitors.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
A harrowing account of the fall of Khartoum to Mahdist forces, describing the killing of General Gordon and a brutal massacre of the garrison compared to the worst horrors of the Sepoy Mutiny.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Washington, District of Columbia
As Washington weighed responses to competing British and German diplomatic notes over neutral shipping, officials chose silence over further correspondence — a quiet moment in the diplomatic prelude to America's entry into World War I.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Cuba
An 1897 editorial weighs a pro-Spanish writer's optimism about a negotiated end to Cuba's independence war, and warns that if Spain won't grant autonomy, Washington may eventually be forced to act—a rare window into how the drift toward the Spanish-American War looked from an Arizona paper months before war broke out.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · New York, New York
Freshly nominated for vice president, Theodore Roosevelt pays a courtesy call on ailing New York political boss Thomas Platt, in a brief item capturing the political choreography of 1900.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Paris, France
A moving telegram from the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt explains why, rather than live confined to a sofa, she chose amputation so she could return to the stage and join the cause of aiding wounded soldiers.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Grand Pré, Canada
A retelling of the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, the historical basis for Longfellow's famous poem, recounting families torn apart, homes burned, and thousands scattered destitute along the American coast.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Tientsin, China
A wire dispatch reports the Chinese bombardment of Tien Tsin during the Boxer Rebellion, with foreign concessions burned and heavy casualties among international troops, as the great powers watch anxiously.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
Dispatches confirming the death of General Charles Gordon at Khartoum reach the British War Office, prompting Gladstone to convene an emergency cabinet meeting amid a massacre described as rivaling the worst atrocities of the era.
Scientific American · August 4, 1877 · Brooklyn, New York
A detailed technical account of how the giant steel cables of the still-unfinished Brooklyn Bridge were spun and anchored, offering a rare inside look at one of the era's most ambitious engineering projects.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · San Francisco, California
A vivid account of the opening day of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, when President Wilson triggered the ceremony by wire from the White House and record crowds poured into the fairgrounds that rose from San Francisco's earthquake ruins.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Washington, District of Columbia
The full text of Theodore Roosevelt's brief telegram accepting his place on the Republican ticket with President McKinley.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Basle, Switzerland
A brief account of the 1897 Basle conference where Jewish leaders, including Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau, laid out an ambitious plan to establish a Jewish state in Palestine—an early snapshot of the Zionist movement's founding moment.
