Category: U.S. Historical News

Men hate us until they don’t have us. In 1902, after the Second Boer War, the soldiers left in South Africa settled down only to…

Prepare to don the tinfoil hat. After the Titanic went down, there were many questions that needed to be answered, as well as a lot…

Asbestos can cause malignant mesothelioma. No one should ever use anything made with asbestos. It can kill you. This article, published in 1916, illustrates how…

Before reading the newspaper article below about the tragic burning of the Chicago Iroquois Theater, know that, unlike newspaper articles today, the account is both…

No different from the crap you read in your Facebook feed, the ancient Egyptians also wrote about the mundane, day to day stuff, too. Egyptians…

In the early 1900s, the world was in love with the wonders of asbestos and, truly, it is an amazing mineral that is mined from…

Free electricity from the air? Oh, no, no, no. We could never have that. Roy J. Meyers, in prison because he wrote a bad check,…

Everyone wants to have a mummy in their home, right? I actually like the idea of manufacturing fake mummies to sell off. They’d make great…

Men, imagine not being allowed to get a shave on a Sunday. While going to the barber shop for a clean shave is pretty much…

How was asbestos mined and made into usable fibers? I honestly did not know that asbestos was mined (I was led to believe it was…