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Little Toms and Marie: A Curious French Wedding
Newspapers of the early 1900s often treated unusual lives as curiosities, framing disability, difference, and hardship in language that can feel jarring today. This brief…
Ax Murder Shocks Louisiana State University
The murder of Professor Oscar B. Turner stunned Louisiana State University. Turner’s body was discovered inside the university’s Agronomy Building, badly mutilated by blows from…
Michigan Youth Found Dead on Tracks in Suspected Cover-Up
At first glance, the death of 19-year-old Maynard Bixby might have appeared to be a terrible railroad accident. His body was found on the Michigan…
Armed Robbers Terrorize Elmira in Deadly Early Morning Raid
Elmira, Ohio, was thrown into terror in the early hours of the morning when a gang of heavily armed robbers swept into town and turned…
Scranton Hearing Reveals Fight Over Child Labor in the Mines
In the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania, where whole towns lived by the whistle of the mines, the question of a miner’s wage was never…
The Strange Disappearance of the Proctor Pines Family
For years, the old southern home known as Proctor Pines stood near Princeton, Kentucky, wrapped in rumor. The family who lived there had money, lineage,…
Butte Mob Hunts Detective After Shooting of Harry Cole
Butte, Montana, was no stranger to violence in the early 1900s. It was a hard mining city, crowded with saloons, laborers, gamblers, detectives, and men…
Pittsburgh Police Probe Mystery of Headless Body
The discovery of a headless body in a bath house along Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River left detectives with a grim puzzle and almost nothing to follow. …
Skimmed Milk Blamed for Infant Malnutrition
In the years just after World War I, milk was a daily necessity, especially for families with infants and young children. But in 1919, as…
San Francisco Streetcar Strike Remains Deadlocked
San Francisco’s street railroad strike showed no sign of ending in May 1907, despite efforts by a citizens’ committee to bring both sides to the…
