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Original Barley Broth war recipe. Numerous recipes, called war recipes, were published in newspapers during World War I. The reasoning behind this was to help…

I was going to write an article on people who fell down the stairs, but as I read the articles, I found that nearly all…

It was 1903 and a woman’s body had just been found inside a sewer pipe. While we will discover who did it and why, let’s…

For this article, we are going begin with an execution and later end on the same topic, but with a slightly different twist. 1. Hanged…

Published in 1962, this short list of low cost beauty tips is a glimpse into the life of a teenager during the sixties. Low Cost…

For something a little different, I decided to visit Trove, an Australian newspaper archive created by the National Library of Australia. (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/) So, of course,…

Hay wagons may seem like part of a quaint past time, but in reality hay wagons were dangerous. In fact, a quick search through the…

Titled as a Children’s Horoscope, here is the fortune teller that children were encouraged to cut out of the newspaper, pin together, and tell their…

Hi everyone, this is Elizabeth from Strange Ago, and today I want to share a few newspaper stories that I found to be rather unusual,…

On October 28, 1906, a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train fell off a draw bridge. 53 of the roughly 88 people on the…