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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · St. John's, Newfoundland
A dispatch on Britain's plan to send an official to fund Newfoundland's fishermen after local banks and merchants failed to do so, revealing the colony's financial crisis of the mid-1890s.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Havana, Cuba
A Spanish diplomat casts doubt on an American steamer captain's account of an incident at sea, in a small diplomatic sparring match tied to the Cuban crisis.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Fifty sleighs of firewood, donated by farmers from St. Jerome and led by a beloved parish priest, rolled into Montreal to be distributed among the city's poor — a forgotten act of rural charity during a hard Canadian winter.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Berlin, Germany
A brief, gossipy note on Kaiser Wilhelm I's supposed fear of death offers a small, human glimpse of a monarch otherwise remembered only for grand historical events.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Shanghai, China
A short dispatch quoting the New York Independent on the scale of Roman Catholic missionary success in China, contrasted with Protestant efforts, with a garbled but revealing statistical tally.
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · London, United Kingdom
A profile of Daphne Allen, a young English girl said to have produced remarkable religious drawings from an early age, whose work was exhibited in London and published as a book — an odd little episode of Edwardian fascination with child prodigies and spiritual art.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Berlin, Germany
A brief diplomatic bulletin naming Russia's new minister to Germany, one of many small notices of the era's shifting European chancelleries.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Windsor, England
A dispatch on a public controversy in Britain over whether the annual Easter volunteer review at Windsor was serious military training or mere holiday pageantry, plus a stray note on the death of a royal ostrich.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A brief note on rumors that the Catholic heir to the Italian throne might act as godfather at a Protestant christening, raising questions of religious propriety.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · London, England
A London newspaper's interview with an American consul recounts a jokey exchange with President Roosevelt about the price of their summer suits — a light bit of transatlantic celebrity gossip reprinted for American readers.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Pithiviers, France
A retired London theatre machinist buys a French country house and turns a dinner party for his new neighbors into a startling display of stage trickery.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Paris, France
A curious historical footnote on the earliest regulated book-lending trade in Paris, when scholars paid the University's set rates to borrow manuscripts they could not afford to buy.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
A Victorian folklorist traces why robins, owls, and crowing hens are freighted with omens across England, Germany, and China, arguing that superstition, not mythology, came first—a charming piece of comparative anthropology from 1876.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Manchester, England
A brief anecdote about the British statesman John Bright musing, over dinner, about wanting to return fifty years after his death to see what America would become — a small window into how Victorian Britons viewed the young republic's prospects.
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · Paris, France
A breezy 1913 dispatch on how Parisians of every class — from hotel waiters to washerwomen to smitten young men on the street — had become obsessed with practicing their English on American and British tourists, upending the old romance of foreign travel.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · England
A brief, fragmentary anecdote about the playwright Sheridan Knowles being teased for missing a dinner engagement — the story breaks off where the page ends.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Moukden, China
A Russian report alleging that the Chinese emperor secretly ordered his troops to join the Boxers, and that Russian railway engineers in Manchuria were forced out despite pleading for military help.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Shanghai, China
A prewired warning from an American consul in Shanghai, sent just before the fall of the Pekin legations, expressing fear for the ministers trapped inside.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Rome, Italy
A Dublin correspondent's dispatch describes an unusually large gathering of Irish clergy, laity, and emigrants from around the world at Rome's Irish Franciscan convent for St. Patrick's Day, 1870, and reproduces much of Archbishop Manning's sermon touching on Ireland's fidelity to Rome and the coming Vatican Council — a vivid, now largely forgotten scene from the eve of Vatican I.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · London, England
A notice that Britain's foreign office published the terms of the new United States income tax law for the benefit of British residents earning American income, extending the filing deadline to April 15.
