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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Perth, Canada
A strange human-interest account of a deranged young man who abandoned society decades earlier to live naked in the woods near Perth, Ontario, surviving the bitter Canadian winters unclothed.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · Ragusa, Ottoman Empire
Una breve nota necrológica sobre la muerte de un diplomático italiano destacado en los Balcanes, un pequeño rastro de la vasta red consular del siglo XIX ya perdida en el olvido.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Kilkenny, Ireland
A wry Kilkenny anecdote in which a man, reading his own obituary, writes to the editor politely correcting several errors — including the actual cause of his supposed death.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Lake Simon, Quebec, Canada
A brief report of a fatal fire at a remote railway camp in Quebec that killed all four occupants of a work shanty.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · London, England
A brief obituary for a decorated Civil War veteran who died abroad in London.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Las Minas, Cuba
A Cuban court ruled in favor of American mine investors against a rival claim based on an old land document, clearing the way for continued copper development just after the Spanish-American War.
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.
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 13, 1885 · Lake Simon, Canada
A brief, grim wire item reporting that a remote railway construction camp in Quebec burned to the ground overnight, killing all four men inside — a tragedy so small it merited only a few lines.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
A brief dispatch reporting that the Ottoman government raised a loan to settle a debt claim owed to the Cramp shipbuilding firm.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands
A short notice of a series of earthquake tremors felt across the Cape Verde Islands, a minor natural event otherwise lost to history.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Rome, Italy
A charming anecdote from a Roman correspondent about an Irish-born beggar near the Colosseum who, having married and widowed her way across Europe, could switch fluently between English, French, and Italian—but drew the line at Latin.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A one-line notice of a Vatican honor bestowed on Msgr. Stonor after ten years of service.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · United Kingdom
A retold anecdote of an 18th-century English peer's dramatic elopement with a banker's daughter, complete with a shot horse and a Gretna Green wedding.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
A colliery explosion in Nova Scotia traps and kills miners deep underground, with rescuers braving afterdamp to bring out survivors.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Honolulu, Hawaii
A dispatch on Hawaiian exiles seeking to return home, a Pittsburgh lawyer's bid to win clemency for a condemned man named Seward, and rumors of arms smuggling into Oahu amid political unrest — a vivid glimpse of Hawaii's turbulent post-revolution years.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872
A French physician's chance observation of a butcher salting pig's blood led to a startling reduction in yellow fever deaths among troops in the West Indies—an obscure but consequential medical discovery worth remembering.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Gibraltar, Gibraltar
A gruesome follow-up crime in which a butcher, suspected of already having killed a Catholic vicar, burst into a room during the funeral and beheaded the body.
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 10, 1870 · England
A harrowing account, reprinted from an English paper, of a husband's fatal beating of his wife and the son who tried in vain to save her — a stark record of ordinary domestic violence largely forgotten to history.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Samoa
An early American colonial census of Samoa blames high infant mortality on ignorance of hygiene and credits new U.S. administration with bringing medical knowledge — a revealing glimpse of American imperial paternalism in the Pacific.
