Tag: Philadelphia

A walk through the woods near Manayunk turned into a terrifying ordeal for 16-year-old Mary Schulz in the spring of 1895.  What began as a…

At the height of the early twentieth century, a single word could bring a train, a hotel, a ship, or an entire neighborhood to a…

Of all the strange places to find a hoard of gold, one man found a stash of gold coins inside a pipe near Center City…

In the vast (oh so vast) annals of criminal history, populated by tales of legendary mobsters, clever thieves, and shadowy serial killers, there lies a…

Two Philly bakers were charged with adulterating their cakes and buns by adding chrome yellow (lead chromate) in 1888. Richly Colored Buns In the Criminal…

The 1891 article below talks about the skeleton trade in Philadelphia. It highlights a man from France who came to Philadelphia to begin his trade…

They were called fiendish youths in the 1800 and 1900s, but they were simply children who sadistically hurt and sometimes murdered other people, both children…

Icepicks are deadly weapons and were rather popular in the early half of the 1900s. In fact, many assaults were committed by people who would…

Gruesome things have happened along, inside, and over the Delaware River. Plenty of bodies were fishes out of the waters and it was a common…

The following article was published in 1912 and talks about what dress and travel was like back in 1812. Just One Hundred Years Ago How…