Tag: New York City
Tenement House Fire in New York, 1903
While the New York State Tenement House Act (1867) required tenement homes to have fire escapes, tragedies continued to happen. In the newspaper article below,…
Specialty Shoes Made for Dogs in 1912
If you think that people pamper their dogs now, you haven’t heard about the custom made shoes for dogs back in 1912. In a time…
The Battling Broderick Sisters
Whoever said that the women of today were far more brazen and lawless than the women of a century ago, never heard of the Broderick…
Death Row Inmate Cheats Electric Chair
While written in 1912, this newspaper article brings up some points that we still haven’t fully answered today. For example, should we look the other…
The Building of New York City’s Subway System
Have you ever wondered how the New York City’s subway was built or why they decided to build it? I certainly have each and every…
1912 Pitiful Case of Death and Insanity
Tragic stories, such as the one below, triggers the imagination. We know what led to the situation, but how did the events play out inside…
New York’s Laboratory Of The Mysterious
By the 1920s, people interested in the world’s great mysteries and psychic sciences were creating machines and gadgets to try and understand psychic energies, ghosts,…
Women’s Excessive Working Hours in the Laundries
In the early 1900s, people were expected to work up to and sometimes over 24 hours. Men and women had to fight to lower the…
10 Creepy Torso Cases From The Past
It almost sounds like something out of a crime television series, but it happens all over the world and it has been happening long before…
18 Sudden Deaths Reported In One Night
The 18 “sudden” deaths reported in this article were not all that sudden or even uncommon, but for 1922, it was a frightening event in…
