Category: History

William Mecklingberg, a young IWW organizer, tragically died after falling from a freight car near Willmar, suffering severe injuries that led to his death an…

Here is a 1918 newspaper article about a man who tried to leave the U.S. with $500 in gold. He hid the gold in a…

“I promised to marry a mountain girl from Kentucky, and then I stole her dowry and ditched her in Pittsburgh. AITAH?” Oof. What a story!…

I just love reading stories about lost and found gold. The following was reported in 1919 and tells how a man, knowing he was about…

My son would sleepwalk when he was little. I remember seeing him step into the hallway and jumping up to quickly guide him back to…

Bay leaves, known scientifically as Laurus nobilis, have been cherished for their symbolic and practical uses for over two thousand years. Originating from the Mediterranean…

World War I began on July 28, 1914. By September of that same year, the streets were already thick with bodies of the dead. Below…

From 1897 comes this arrest report regarding a man who was discovered beating his wife because she didn’t have his suppered prepared at the proper…

Was Napoleon’s heart eaten by rats and replaced with a sheep’s heart? Or was it actually placed in a tureen and buried with him? Throughout…

From a newspaper published in the spring of 1892 we find a horrifying story of a doctor who attempted to revive a man who was…