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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · United Kingdom
A shipboard anecdote from before the Russian war about a mischievous pet ape aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon who scalded himself trying to cook, hid in a lit oven, and stole a warm fowl to sleep with at night.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Austin, Texas
A tiny crime item about a sneak thief who lifted a pressman's watch right out of the Statesman's own pressroom.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Lincoln, Nebraska
A blistering exposé of corporate control over the 1895 Nebraska legislature, built around a lobbyist's own boastful confession of how he pulled the strings of state senators on behalf of the railroads — a vivid, largely forgotten window into Gilded Age political corruption.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · Mazatlan, Mexico
A correspondent describes the armed uprising of the caudillo Manuel Lozada against the government of Lerdo de Tejada, alongside a devastating picture of customs abuses, a copper currency in crisis, and a Mexican Supreme Court publicly accused of corruption — a raw and little-remembered glimpse into the instability of post-Reform Mexico.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Barboursville, West Virginia
A harrowing eyewitness account of a lynching in Barboursville, West Virginia, where a mob hanged a man and nearly hanged a woman for the axe murder of her husband, complete with confessions, prayers, and a near-riot over whether to spare her life.
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Columbia, South Carolina
A Laurens attorney publishes a chain of letters in a dispute over a disputed medical certificate involving Governor Cole Blease, part of the era's swirling political scandals in South Carolina.
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · Phoenix, Arizona
A now-forgotten scheme by New York capitalists to build an ambitious narrow-gauge railroad from the Gulf of California through Arizona into New Mexico, backed by a $25 million war chest that history never recorded delivering.
Fergus County Argus · September 12, 1905 · Lewistown, Montana
Two men briefly held as suspects in the Studzinski murder case are released for lack of evidence, while two others remain jailed as authorities continue investigating — a fragment of an unsolved frontier killing.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Washington, District of Columbia
A New York ship broker testifies before a congressional committee that foreign shipping interests had quietly seized control of American chambers of commerce and maritime exchanges, skewing national policy debates on shipping legislation.
Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Shadwell, Virginia
A little-remembered Virginia railroad disaster killed five and injured seventeen when a locomotive axle failed, plunging cars down an embankment into a river.
The Evening World · December 14, 1888 · New York, New York
A young man who had turned his life around after a term at the Elmira Reformatory is hauled back there on a technicality, over the anguished protests of his parents — a small, bitter case study in the machinery of Gilded Age parole enforcement.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Fronteras, Arizona
Fighting breaks out between striking railroad graders and Yaqui Indian strikebreakers along the Nacosari railway line in Arizona, leaving several dead and wounded, prompting the deployment of Mexican troops.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Stevensville, Montana
A predawn fire destroyed most of a block of businesses in the small Montana town of Stevensville, causing over $100,000 in damage — a now-forgotten disaster that reshaped the local business district.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A fast-moving fire destroyed the city's oldest foundry and spread to nearby tenements, killing several horses and briefly threatening the gas works — an ordinary industrial disaster of the kind that filled Gilded Age wire columns and is otherwise unrecorded.
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Cleveland, Ohio
A bizarre kidnapping-and-extortion case in which a Catholic priest claimed he was lured to a woman's home, held prisoner for a day, and coerced into signing large financial notes — a strange episode largely lost to history.
The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Austin, Texas
A former Travis County treasurer, campaigning for a federal postmastership, publishes an extraordinary open letter defending himself after a sensational arrest for allegedly misapplying county funds two years earlier — a vivid firsthand account of a night in jail and a public reputation on trial.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Youngstown, Ohio
A frightened horse throws a family from their buggy onto railroad tracks near Youngstown, Ohio, killing one woman instantly beneath a locomotive's wheels and seriously injuring a child.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Lincoln, Nebraska
A little-remembered livestock sanitary convention pushed states to comply with federal foot-and-mouth disease rules, while a Nebraska veterinarian's pioneering tuberculosis motion pictures — filmed in South Omaha packing houses — drew national attention.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · New Orleans, Louisiana
A formerly enslaved woman who spent years earning money to buy her husband's freedom seeks divorce after he abandons her for another woman.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · New York
A report of a supposed discovery of hard coal, iron, and copper deposits in the Adirondacks that, if true, would overturn established geology and embarrass a canal company that had just spent millions on an alternative coal route.
