Shade Trees or Cows? Roswell, New Mexico, Had to Choose
In 1904 Roswell, New Mexico, argued over the town cow: boys drove herds through the streets past new shade trees, and the council took up her case.
Read MoreIn 1904 Roswell, New Mexico, argued over the town cow: boys drove herds through the streets past new shade trees, and the council took up her case.
Read MoreIn 1896 a Kalispell McKinley man promised to board his Bryan-backing neighbor if McKinley won. In 1897 the neighbor arrived by sleigh to collect.
Read MoreIn 1896 the Salt Lake Herald offered silver cups to the first boy and girl born in the new state of Utah. A Salt Lake girl and a Gunnison boy won.
Read MoreIn 1889 eight North Carolina girls threw a note in a bottle from an Atlantic steamer. In 1890 a man on Virginia Beach found it and wrote to Wilmington.
Read MoreIn 1895 a farmer’s son in King George County, Virginia, found a terrapin carved “8th Penna. Cav’y, May, 1863.” Then the man who carved it wrote in.
Read MoreIn 1910 a railroad agent in Mexico gave El Paso, Texas, his five pet deer and wrote the children a letter. The deer started the El Paso Zoo.
Read MoreIn 1909 E. T. Odom built an aeroplane in secret in Birmingham, Alabama. A year later a Wright pilot took him up, 25 or 50 feet, at the State Fair.
Read MoreIn 1901 Randall Day, a guide in Princeton, Maine, told the state game commissioner to come remove three of “your moose” from his little farm.
Read MoreIn 1912 the Aberdeen, Washington, Elks lodge drove five tame elk out of the Quinault valley, trained them, and led the Elks’ Portland parade with them.
Read MoreIn September 1900, a steam car bound for a Wahpeton doctor became the first automobile ever seen in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. What the old papers said.
Read MoreIn September 1918, three girls in Coteau, North Dakota, took over the Great Northern’s section crew for $3 a day. What the old papers said about them.
Read MoreIn 1910, 15-year-old Jerry Moore of Winona, South Carolina, grew 228 bushels of corn on one acre and was named the world’s champion boy corn grower.
Read MoreOn Mound Day, November 5, 1908, West Virginia schoolchildren gave nickels to save the Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville from becoming building lots.
Read MoreIn March 1916, Elmer Thompson and Gertrude Barton ran off near Muskogee, Oklahoma. With her father close behind, a justice married them by telephone.
Read MoreOn Valentine’s Day 1895, a foot of snow fell on Opelousas, Louisiana, and a clergyman led a snowball army from Landry street against Main street.
Read MoreIn 1886 the Chicago club took the baths at Hot Springs, Arkansas, under a pledge not to drink. That summer Spalding had detectives follow them.
Read MoreIn the 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon, the first man home had ridden in a car, and the winner was kept going with strychnine and egg whites.
Read MoreIn 1903, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson of Burlington, Vermont, made the first drive across America, with a mechanic and Bud, a bulldog in goggles.
Read MoreGarnet Carter’s putting course at Fairyland on Lookout Mountain started the 1930 miniature golf craze. What a round cost and how he sold out.
Read MoreA 1938 radio play landed Martians at Grovers Mill, New Jersey. What the next day’s papers said, and why the panic was smaller than the headlines.
Read MoreIn 1925, 20 dog teams relayed diphtheria serum about 675 miles to Nome, Alaska. Balto led the last run through a blizzard. What the Nome Nugget reported.
Read MoreOn January 15, 1919, a molasses tank on Boston’s waterfront burst and flooded the North End, killing 21 people. What the papers reported, then and in 1925.
Read MoreIn 1861, Eau Claire soldiers bought a young eagle for $2.50, named him Old Abe and carried him into battle. What the old newspapers said about him.
Read MoreDr. William Key of Shelbyville, Tennessee, taught his horse Jim Key to spell, count and make change. What the old papers said about the pair.
Read MoreFor ten years Arizona told of the Red Ghost, a wild camel with a dead man tied on its back. What the 1893 paper said, and where the camels came from.
Read MoreOn Thanksgiving Day 1895, six horseless wagons raced 54 miles through snow from Chicago to Evanston and back. Two finished. What the 1895 papers said.
Read MoreIn February 1870, a tie-breaking vote made Esther Morris of South Pass City, Wyoming, a justice of the peace. What the papers said about her court.
Read MoreNear Onward, Mississippi, on November 14, 1902, Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree. A cartoon followed, then the teddy bear.
Read MoreOn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, with one small bag to race around the world. The old papers tell how she won.
Read MoreOn October 24, 1901, Anna Edson Taylor, a schoolteacher from Bay City, Michigan, went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and lived. What the papers reported.
Read MoreOn February 19, 1914, five-year-old May Pierstorff was mailed from Grangeville to Lewiston, Idaho, for 53 cents. Her hometown paper told the story that day.
Read MoreIn December 1915, San Diego promised rainmaker Charles Hatfield $10,000 to fill its reservoir. Then came the floods of January 1916. What the papers said.
Read MoreOn January 12, 1888, teacher Minnie Freeman led her pupils from a wrecked schoolhouse near Ord, Nebraska, to a farmhouse. What the 1888 newspapers said.
Read MoreOn November 9, 1874, the New York Herald said the Central Park animals had escaped and killed 49 people. It was a hoax, confessed in the last paragraph.
Read MoreIn April 1887, men in Argonia, Kansas, put Susanna Salter’s name on a ballot as a joke. She won and became the first woman mayor in the country.
Read MoreOn March 3, 1876, flakes of what looked like raw meat fell from a clear sky in Bath County, Kentucky. What witnesses, a butcher and the scientists said.
Read MoreOn November 17, 1896, a bright light crossed Sacramento’s night sky and hundreds said it was an airship with a singing crew. The old newspapers tell the story.
Read MoreWagons on stable roofs, gates on telephone poles, buggies on haystacks: what old newspapers reported the morning after Halloween, from Paducah, Kentucky, to Dakota.
Read MoreOn Halloween 1933, the Imperial Valley Press in El Centro, California, had to explain “trick or treat” to its readers. The old newspapers show the phrase arriving.
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