Author: StrangeAgo
Absolute Life Cult Leader Gets Jail Time
What people are willing to believe is just incredible. That is what makes cults so interesting, scary, and even entertaining. This newspaper entry is about…
Chinese Use of Fingerprints in the Early 1900s
The Chinese were ahead of the rest of the world in many ways, from religious philosophies to their writing and literature. They also were using…
Chicago Heat Storm Blamed for 7 Deaths 1912
Imagine a time without air conditioning or central air, then imagine living in the city. It was hell on earth, for sure. Here are the…
Disinfect Kisses With a Lemon
Since they could not make kissing illegal, doctors recommended sucking on a lemon after kissing your sweetheart. It was meant to kill off any yucky…
Vibrations From War Trenches In Europe Wound Souls Of Babies Born In America
There were some wild and crazy ideas being put out there over 100 years ago. This little article has got to be one of the…
8 Old Love Divinations From Europe
Love divinations were a very prominent obsession with young women in old Europe because a woman’s fortune or misfortune was tied in with the man…
An End to Foot Binding in China
I don’t feel that it is my right to criticize the traditions and customs of other cultures, but I am certainly glad that foot binding…
5 Horrors of the Old Orphanages
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, running an orphanage was often a big business. People of wealth would help fund the orphanages. Sometimes the…
Burial of Sir Walter Scott
Famous poet and novelist, Sir Walter Scott passed away on September 21, 1832. This newspaper article appeared in 1904 and retells the story of his…
Made To Drink Castor Oil For Drunkenness
If you have never tried castor oil, be thankful. The stuff is beyond gross, and in 1922, Rome decided to force people exhibiting public drunkenness…
