Category: History

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…

How are adobe bricks made? This account from 1883 explains the old process perfectly. Making Adobes Monday morning we drove down to see them making…

Asbestos deposits were mostly in Western United States. Canadians mined far more asbestos than we did 100+ years ago. It is interesting to note that…

Published in 1902, the article goes into the trade of diamond cutting. Apparently, diamond cutting was a great paying field to apprentice in over 100…