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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895
A grab-bag of world dispatches from a single day in March 1895 — German parliamentary politics, a royal Italian engagement, arrested Spanish editors, a Scottish thread cartel's price cut, the Garibaldi monument in Rome, and British aid to Newfoundland's fishing fleet.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Madagascar
French forces seize a fortress in northern Madagascar during their colonial campaign, a small dispatch from a largely forgotten imperial war.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Germany
An American writer's dispatch on a German charitable institution where young women could board cheaply, learn trades, and sell needlework anonymously to preserve their dignity.
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · France
A 1913 feature has fun with the reverse language problem afflicting American tourists in France: everyone from waiters to shopgirls to society ladies now insists on practicing their English on visitors, making it nearly impossible to actually speak French in France.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Che Foo, China
A dispatch describing the rescue of hundreds of Western missionaries and thousands of Chinese refugees during the Boxer Rebellion, brought to safety aboard a steamer with a secret destination.
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Allenstein, Germany
An early skirmish report from the opening days of World War I describes cavalry clashes and a cut rail line on the German-Russian frontier.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
A short dispatch marvels at how news of Khartoum's fall in Sudan rippled instantly through Chicago wheat prices and New York stocks — an early glimpse of how connected global markets already were in 1885.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · England
A grab-bag of gossipy anecdotes drawn from the private letters and table-talk of the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, sketching the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Lord Brougham, Sheridan and Byron in unguarded moments — vivid, catty history from the inside.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A Rome correspondent untangles a diplomatic flap over a Catholic cardinal serving as a foreign ambassador, and reports on friction between the Vatican and Bismarck's Prussia over the Catholic Church in Germany.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Palermo, Italy
An Italian ex-premier publicly accuses sitting Premier Francesco Crispi of overstepping constitutional powers, a moment of open political conflict in 1890s Italy.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873
A roundup of foreign cable dispatches covering American claims against the U.S. government, Spanish colonial policy, Carlist hostage-taking in Spain, the Shah of Persia's tour of Paris, Ottoman naval movements toward Sumatra, and the summons of a former Turkish vizier.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · United Kingdom
A statistics-laden temperance-column essay tallying the vast capital and tax revenue tied up in Britain's drink trade, arguing that the scale of alcohol production and taxation was almost too enormous to grasp.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
A round-up of London stage news—new productions, John Hare's plans for an American tour, and the romantic maneuvering around actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell—offers a snapshot of 1890s theatrical culture and its gossip mill.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 10, 1870 · Rome, Italy
A hagiographic account of the young Polish Jesuit novice St. Stanislas Kostka — his persecution by his brother, his secret vocation, flight to join the Jesuits, and his early death — reprinted in a Catholic weekly for its readers' edification.
The Sun · November 16, 1913 · London, England
A young American artist's chance encounter with King Edward VII sparked a European society craze for silhouette portraiture, an old art form suddenly revived among royalty and nobility.
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878 · Jerusalem
A Sunday-school Bible study on Luke's parable of the rich man's barns, warning against covetousness and drawing a distinction between wealth of character and wealth of property — a glimpse into the era's Sunday-school curriculum.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Tien Tsin, China
A grim wartime dispatch reporting that foreign forces at Tien Tsin, besieged and short of reinforcements, expect to have to abandon the city.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Tientsin, China
A cablegram to a Methodist missionary society hints at the massacre of dozens of missionaries in Tien Tsin during the Boxer uprising.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Manila, Philippines
Dispatches from the closing phase of the Philippine-American War describe mass surrenders of Filipino insurgents, the appointment of a former rebel commander as a well-paid colonial governor, and an almost farcical rumor circulating among exiled Filipino nationalists in London that General MacArthur was torturing Aguinaldo.
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · London, England
A brief wartime dispatch reports British political leaders discussing a possible coalition government as Europe slides toward war.
