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Published 2026-09-18 · California frontier press, 1870s · 8 stories
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
A fraud scheme using forged Treasury drafts threatens Arizona, Southern California, and Utah
The federal Sub-Treasurer in San Francisco uncovers a network of forged payment orders imitating the signatures of army paymasters in Arizona, a fraud that left innocent victims out of their money — a case of institutional swindling from the Old West that history never recorded.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
A fragment of a scientific chronicle tracing the long and stumbling path from a passing notion of the abbé Barthélémy to the invention of the electric telegraph by Morse and Wheatstone, showing how many decades of frustrated trials preceded the technology that would change the world.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
A serialized historical romance recounts the exiled Portuguese princess María, widow of King Sebastian, and the mysterious stranger who appears claiming to be her dead husband returned from hiding — only to be seized by agents of Venice's dreaded Council of Ten.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873
News from San Francisco reports the arrival of a steamer, grim word on victims of the wrecked steamer George S. Wright, and figures on trade with Central America and the mounting debt of the Central Pacific Railroad.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
Two brief and concerned notices on the health of two prominent figures of nineteenth-century Hispanic California: former governor Romualdo Pacheco and district judge Pablo de la Guerra, names now nearly forgotten outside local history circles.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
A florid historical retelling of the 1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quibir in Morocco, where the kings of Portugal and Morocco perished, and the tragic exile of the widowed Portuguese queen — a piece of popular history for readers of this Spanish-language Los Angeles paper, cut off mid-story by the page's end.
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.
La CróNica · March 5, 1873
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.
