Category: U.S. Historical News
World War I Registration of Germans in the U.S.
In the last year of WWI, it was declared that all German aliens be registered. Here is a snippet of what I discovered in a…
Escaped From Prison to Help His Mother
There are no details as to how this man escaped the penitentiary, but the reason why is plain: his mother needed him. The man escaped,…
Arm Sewn to Boy’s Face
This 1911 plastic surgery procedure is not for the weak of heart or stomach. The process describes cutting away malformed jaw muscle and attaching the…
Flour for Fixing Burns
For starters, the article below comes from a newspaper printed in 1851. It should not, under any circumstances, be used as medical advice. It is…
Doctors Wanted to End Kissing
1912 was the year when medical doctors were trying to get kissing outlawed. Not for religious reasons, but because they felt that kissing was gross….
Women’s Excessive Working Hours in the Laundries
In the early 1900s, people were expected to work up to and sometimes over 24 hours. Men and women had to fight to lower the…
A 1903 “Cure” For Insomnia
The medical discoveries and advice in the early 1900s flip-flops between scary and silly. I have seen everything from harvesting lightning to cure rheumatism to…
Labor Strikes 3000 Years Ago Same as Today
People have been waging labor strikes since, at the least, the time of the ancient Pharaohs. It was not something that was affiliated with a…
Women Tar Young Girl
I don’t care how “scandalous” a person is, no one deserves to be tarred, especially not an 18 year old young woman. Women Tar Young…
Husband Diagnosed With Leprosy and Wife Will Join Him on Leper Colony
In this article, found in a 1912 newspaper, a husband is believed to have leprosy. It was a frightening discovery at that time because there…
