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Young Soldier Went to War at 14 and Deserted at 16
Charles F. Kavaney was not yet seventeen when military authorities placed him under guard in Hoboken, New Jersey. On one sleeve of his uniform were…
Widower Exhumed His Wife After Cockfights Took Over Kentucky Cemetery
For 42 years, the wife of Abraham Frye rested in a cemetery near St. Matthews, Kentucky. Then the cemetery became a gathering place for cockfights….
Arizona Miners Claimed They Found a Giant Mummy Buried With a Shotgun
On December 3, 1900, workmen at the United Verde Mines near Jerome, Arizona, reportedly entered a cave exposed by a collapse and discovered a remarkably…
Americans Boycotted High Restaurant Prices by Packing Lunch
In the autumn of 1920, Americans frustrated by the rising cost of restaurant meals began fighting back with one of the simplest weapons available to…
Drunken Hog and Dog Battled Three Goats During Omaha Moonshine Raid
When deputy sheriffs raided a farm near Omaha, Nebraska, during the early days of Prohibition, they found six stills operating and approximately 600 gallons of…
Unmoving Railroad Gates Led to a Grim Discovery
At a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossing in Wilmington, Delaware, a set of gates remained lowered longer than expected one day in April 1915. When…
San Francisco Traffic Cop Arrested Woman for Sticking Out Her Tongue
In San Francisco in January 1921, Loretta Lowe of Fresno was arrested for an offense that rarely appears on modern police blotters: sticking out her…
Woman Allegedly Shoved From Streetcar Was Injured Again Minutes Later
Mrs. J. C. Anderson suffered not one but two transportation accidents while attempting to travel through Seattle on a Tuesday night in January 1921. The…
Minnesota Couple Found Two Abandoned Babies on Same Date 14 Years Apart
On the morning of April 19, 1930, Joseph and Mrs. Adams opened the door of their home in Montevideo, Minnesota, and found an infant girl…
Young Man Who Lost Both Arms Sold Newspapers at Brooklyn Bridge
At the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge on the evening of November 24, 1904, commuters encountered a new face among the young men selling newspapers…
