Category: U.S. Historical News
Wanted – Wooden Leg
Here is a young man who was orphaned at age 7 and then lost his leg on the job. Down on all his luck, all…
10 Horrible Coal Mining Accidents In The 1800s
In the 1800s, coal mining accidents were an everyday occurrence. Usually the accident reports took up the space of five lines in the local newspapers….
Strange 1895 Report of Ball Lightning
Ball lightning is rare and fascinating. It is also seldom reported, so when we came across this report of ball lightning from 1895, we knew…
Dinosaur Sightings In Early 1900s
It sounds like one of the old “dinosaur in the jungle” movies, but the year is 1910 and there have been monster sightings in South…
Artist Paint Made From Ground Up Egyptian Mummies
Art history has shown us that artists were willing to use a wide variety of strange pigments for their paints. One of those pigments came…
Leprosy Breaks Out On Shipboard
Leprosy is an infectious disease that has long frightened people, and for good reason. It can be transmitted from droplets from the mouth and nose…
Scalp Massage As Dandruff Cure
The following dandruff cure comes from a newspaper published in 1912. I have never attempted a head massage as a way to get rid of…
Massaging Bruises
I have never massaged a bruise, but apparently some people believe that it works to get rid of bruising. The article below comes from 1894….
Fast Cars Cause Lunacy
Think you have heard it all? Guess again. According to the head doctors in the early 1900s, dodging fast moving cars could give the nerves…
Amazing World Echoes
As a young child, echoes fascinated me and my friends. We would find little nooks and large rooms to produce echoes. When my mom packed…
