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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
As General Gordon's fate at Khartoum remained uncertain, opposition papers in London accused the British Government of hiding a letter in which Gordon explained he had sent Colonel Stewart away to save his life while resolving to die at his post himself.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
A London cable dispatch reports that Europe's great powers, despite Russian objections over Port Arthur, appear unwilling or unable to interfere with Japan's peace terms against China, then drifts into a wide-ranging roundup of British political, religious, and theatrical gossip of the week.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
An early account of General Gordon's killing during the fall of Khartoum, one of the defining imperial tragedies of the era, as first reported to the British press.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · London, England
Wartime dispatch describing Britain's declaration that food shipments to Germany will be treated as contraband, alongside reports of fighting in Poland, France, Belgium and Galicia during the early stages of World War I.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Manila, Philippines
The official confirmation of Commodore George Dewey's crushing victory over the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay finally reached Washington via Hong Kong, five days after the battle — a landmark moment of the Spanish-American War told through the frantic, fragmentary dispatches of the day it broke.
