Category: Culture
A Look Inside the New York Morgue and Potter’s Field 1889
The article below, originally published in 1889, gives us insight into New York City’s morgue, the dead house. The article starts off slow, but gets…
They Drank Alcohol from the Specimen Jar
Have you ever watched one of those shows or a Youtube video where people eat something weird or gross? Here is a tidbit from the…
Spit Under a Rock to Make a Wish from 1892
Over the past few years, I have been collecting quite a few superstitions on Strange Ago. Today I found this short article, originally published in…
Children Should Be In Factories – Old-time Factory Cringe
I spend hours each day reading through the old newspapers and I am always finding articles that make me “what the hum” out loud. Earlier…
In the Dissecting Rooms
What was it like to witness a dissection of a human body in the early 20th century? The following article details a reporter’s look inside…
Factory Prepares Human Bones
Skeleton factories found in metropolitan areas, such as Paris, London, and New York, had a healthy trade in human bones. This fascinated reporters back in…
The Skeleton Industry
Here is yet another article about the skeleton industry in the late 1800s. The article has a humor not present in previous articles on this…
Odd Religious Sects in Late 1800s US
The weird religious sects below were named in a newspaper article published in 1895. Each of them are rather interesting. The only sect around today…
Selling Human Skeletons
A previous article I put online discussed how Paris was the major exporter of human skeletons in the 1800s. In the article below, a doctor…
Circus Attendant Exacts Revenge on Living Skeleton
The most fascinating things to read about in the old newspapers are the stories about the sideshows and circuses. The people involved in these businesses…
