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Published 2026-09-18 · American papers looking abroad, 1860–1915 · 20 stories
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
A wilderness recluse near Perth, unclothed through Canadian winters
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.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
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.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
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.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900
A brief obituary for a decorated Civil War veteran who died abroad in London.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885
A brief report of a fatal fire at a remote railway camp in Quebec that killed all four occupants of a work shanty.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901
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
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.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885
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.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895
A short notice of a series of earthquake tremors felt across the Cape Verde Islands, a minor natural event otherwise lost to history.
