Tag: California

Here is a 1918 newspaper article about a man who tried to leave the U.S. with $500 in gold. He hid the gold in a…

I just love reading stories about lost and found gold. The following was reported in 1919 and tells how a man, knowing he was about…

An examination of 40 rats found that five of them carried the bubonic plague. Oakland takes steps to exterminate the threat to public health. City…

Mining for gold left many men and their families in extreme poverty. The following report from out of California, 1922, tells of a man who…

In this 1910 news article we learn of a troubled young man who poisoned his mother’s coffee with formaldehyde because she would not give him…

A large snapping turtle, found inside a mail bag, help the post office hostage as it snapped at everything in sight. Turtle in Mail Bag…

Anyone who thinks 100 years ago was a blissful paradise hasn’t read the newspaper reports published during that time. And so today, we are going…

Winston Churchill 1929. “A distinguished Briton lands a big one. Winston Churchill, former British chancellor of the exchequer (in yachting cap), with 180 pound marlin…

Joseph Briggen of Sierra Morena, California was proud of his award winning pigs. They were beautiful creatures, plump and frisky. All the farmers knew he…

A ghoul is traditionally a living person who steals from the dead, and it was quite an occupation back in the early 1900s when incidents…