Early newspapers provide a fascinating look into what life was like during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They gave reports on deaths, marriages, politics, and gruesome accounts of murders.
The only problem with reading through these early newspapers is that they can also be very dry.
Train arrivals and mail times could take up a full page in a four-page newspaper. Advertisements, while interesting at first, are repeatedly printed and often leave the reader with a single full page of news.
Some weeks, the newspaper had nothing new to report on the area and so it filled the pages with news of ship arrivals or poetry.
In order to show you what life was like for the common citizens of the world, StrangeAgo reads through these old newspapers and selects the most interesting articles. The work is tedious, but rewarding. Not only do we learn what life was like for our recent ancestors, but we also learn that most of what we were taught in school was completely wrong.
Feel free to contact StrangeAgo if you have any questions or would like to contribute to this ever-growing website.
