Category: World Historical News
How to Safely Handle and Store 100-Year-Old Newspapers and Letters Without Damaging Them
The Enemy When you hold a 100-year-old newspaper or letter, you are holding a slow-motion chemical reaction. To successfully preserve these documents, you first need…
Grieving Mother Digs Up Son’s Bones and Flees Into the Woods
Some grief does not stay buried. In France, a destitute woman named Alice Gillet became so overcome by the thought of losing her dead son…
Man Visits Sick Wife at Hospital, Gets Mistaken for Lunatic and Locked Up
Albert Smith went to the hospital expecting to visit his sick wife. Instead, he was greeted like a man everyone had been waiting for. The…
Severe Winter Sent Hungry Boar Onto Football Field in France
A football match in France took a strange turn when a hungry wild boar burst onto the field and sent players and spectators running. The…
Toronto Man Claims Responsibility for Mother’s Murder After the Father Hangs
In the summer of 1920, newspapers across North America carried a gut wrenching report from Canada: a young farmer named Arnell Love had confessed to…
Horses and Pulleys Create Battlefield Simulation in Germany
Long before computerized simulations, laser ranges, and virtual battlefields, military planners searched for inventive ways to prepare soldiers for combat. At the dawn of the…
Little Toms and Marie: A Curious French Wedding
Newspapers of the early 1900s often treated unusual lives as curiosities, framing disability, difference, and hardship in language that can feel jarring today. This brief…
Swiss Troops Use Machine Guns on Strikers
In the summer of 1919, Switzerland was caught in the same unrest shaking much of the postwar world. Rising prices, labor anger, and fear of…
