Category: U.S. Historical News
America’s First Woman Steamboat Captain
Mary Millicent Miller was the First American woman to become a steamboat master. From 1884 to 1891, she captained a steamboat and paved the way…
Two Philadelphia Bakers Poisoned Their Buns in 1888
Two Philly bakers were charged with adulterating their cakes and buns by adding chrome yellow (lead chromate) in 1888. Richly Colored Buns In the Criminal…
Early Anatomists
This 1905 article about early anatomists drops some very interesting names, such as Madonna Manzolina and Dr. John Shippen. Both are worth further study. Early…
Medical Students and the Gruesome Work in the Name of Science
Originally published in 1895, the article below describes what it was like inside a dissecting room. What I found interesting was the description of how…
7 Horrendous Cases of People Getting Disemboweled
In 1905, Augustus Rugan worked as a carpenter. One afternoon as he was working on a revolving saw, he leaned into the blade and gashed…
8 Gruesome Accounts of Severed Fingers
In 2018, I wrote a series of articles for Listverse about old cases of children kept in chains, bodies found in sacks, and gruesome ways…
Skeleton of Giant Found in Lincoln County Idaho
The newspaper archives are full of reports about giant skeletons being found. However, the reports always end the same way: The Smithsonian gets the bones…
Philadelphia Skeleton Trade
The 1891 article below talks about the skeleton trade in Philadelphia. It highlights a man from France who came to Philadelphia to begin his trade…
The Skeleton Industry
Here is yet another article about the skeleton industry in the late 1800s. The article has a humor not present in previous articles on this…
A Skeleton Factory in the Late 1800s London
Did doctors use real skeletons long ago and how did they get those human skeletons? It turns out that the wired skeletons that hung from…
