Category: U.S. Historical News

Whenever we see a beached whale, we also see dozens of concerned volunteers working to get the whale back out to sea. Most of us…

Cactus farming is not a novel farm activity that you build up on Minecraft. It is an actual thing and, amazingly, it is gaining traction…

Street peddlers and hawkers were pretty much like the kiosks in the malls today. Some people find them fun and some people are completely irritated…

During World War I, newspapers reported that Italian battle heroes were horrified by the thought of taking a dose of castor oil. Anyone who has…

Polio is caused by a highly contagious virus. It is transmitted from one person to another through the environment. The fecal matter from one infected…

The medical science news from the early 1900s makes me stop to scratch my head. The stuff that was reported was… well, it belonged in…

Imagine having a house built and then finding out that the house is no longer there. Here is a report of a house that went…

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…