Category: U.S. Historical News

There were numerous accounts of elephant abuse in the 1800s, but because of the times it was not considered abuse. While reading through the “young…

Imagine living during a time when you had to work to survive. This included children and teenagers. On top of that, you had to, by…

Stories would go viral through the newspapers in a time long before the internet or even chain letters. Here is an account of someplace known…

There was a ghost ship sighting back in 1917 where twelve boats left port, but thirteen boats were counted in the water. The boats were…

Here is a strange happening where three survivors of the Titanic were left behind on a lifeboat. The Third Officer in charge of that lifeboat…

Got a goat that likes to wander around town? Port Chester got sick of wayward goats and hired in an official goat getter to impound…

Newspapers used to publish sections of world facts for their readers. The Rice Belt Journal, especially took part in trying to educate its readers about…

Can you imagine what the survivors of the Titanic felt after escaping death when so many others had died? Was their survivor’s guilt? The article…

Would you ride a zebra through the streets of Liverpool, England? At a time when animals were treated as things for our own amusement, people…

Here is a little article from out of New Jersey in 1922. A “Jack the Hugger” was springing out of a bush to hug random…