Category: U.S. Historical News

Chain letters are a nuisance and a serious epidemic, according to a report published in a U.S. newspaper in 1922. In fact, chain letters were…

Take a stroll through any old cemetery and you will see that many people died at a young age. Graveyards are filled with the deaths…

Screwworms: the stuff of nightmares. I can’t handle the sight of maggots, so the knowledge that there are flies that lay their eggs on living mammals…

Have you ever tried panning for gold? It is a fun way to spend the day and you can even plan vacations around gold panning…

Imagine putting on a new pair of kid gloves and coming into contact with anthrax? I questioned the validity of this claim, but a quick…

It was the Prohibition. Alcohol was illegal and it was being removed from doctor’s cabinets, having been declared to have no medicinal value. U.S. Attorney…

Looking for a more bustful figure? Well, according to this 1922 newspaper article, all you really need to do to fill out your bust-line is…

Workhouses were where the poor went to receive food and a roof over their heads when times were at their absolute worst. In exchange for…

Conspiracy theories are nothing new and neither is the belief that the government is owned by the über wealthy corporations. In the early 1900s, the…