Category: U.S. Historical News
Prohibition Has Come To Stay
Prohibition is here to stay? Fortunately, this particular commissioner was incredibly wrong. After all, you can have my beer when you pry it from my…
Queen Mary Would Wipe Blood Stain From Pearl
History is filled with strange stories surrounding gems and pearls. The pearl covered in this newspaper article was found by a poor man who, after…
May Have Found Lost Dutchman
With so many reports on the finding of the lost dutchman mine, I believe that in many cases, including this one, people would state that…
Race Suicide and a Secret Society
In the early 1900s, newspapers were all out of sorts with terms like eugenics and race suicide being bounced around like there would be no…
The Evil Rum Seller Pre-Prohibition
Reading through old newspapers is a fun dive into the past, which isn’t too different from the present in many cases. Take, for instance, the…
Lost Dutchman Mine Reported Discovered in 1914
There must have been numerous mines and mining tunnels within the Superstition Mountains in Arizona because newspapers from the past are filled with claims to…
Prohibition Alcohol Smuggled In Christmas Trees
Prohibition was a joke. The idea that the government can ban people from drinking alcohol proved to be a huge waste of everyone’s time, since…
Human Energy Trapped in a Bottle?
Science and medicine was simply weird back in the early 1900s, especially when one doctor claimed that he captured and bottled human energy. Here is…
Many Ships Tell of Disaster in Severe Gales 1922
A simple newspaper report from 1922 of ships being taken down during a major storm. Many Ships Tell of Disaster in Severe Gales Reports from…
Militiamen Bully People During Strike of 1912
Give people guns and the authority to terrify and antagonize the populace, and sure enough, things will turn ugly. In the 1912 account below, the…
