Category: U.S. Historical News

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…

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…