Love intrigue and a midnight escape aboard the Ajax
A teen midshipman Richard Glyn becomes entangled with Lady Arabella Stormont and Philip Overton in a Charles Brockden era melodrama. Glyn overhears schemes at Hawkshaw House, Lady Arabella traps Overton with a hidden letter, and a dawn confrontation exposes loyalties as a heistlike ruse unfolds aboard Sir Peter Hawkshaw’s room. The tale ends with a cliffhanger as Overton departs and Glyn vows to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Huyhsham
Richard Glyn
Arabella Stormont
Glles Vernon
Thomas Vernon
Hawkshaw
Arabella
Vernon
Philip Overton
Overton
Bel
Sir Peter
Overon
Heaven
Twickenhany
Arabella Storaiont
Queer English Milk Wagons
A Canadian visitor admires English milk wagons and the milkman scene, noting two wheeled chariots with brass churns and brass rails. He contrasts it with modern cars and glass bottles, marveling at the medieval charm and the joy of milk delivery by hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Hur
Unreasonable Hubby Tale From A Scottish Prison
A Scottish tale recounts a wife visiting her condemned husband on the eve of his execution. He gives final instructions while she asks about planting tatties. He retorts that he won’t need tatties, and she quips to the warden that John is huffed because he is gaunt from being hanged, then leaves the cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
John
Distant Machines Stir Farmer Oral Firelight
A windfall agent questions the farmer about speeding automobiles. The farmer responds with a rambling retort about siren horns and the effect on dairy milk, describing the machines as mile curding and ruining cream. The dialogue reflects rural frustration with passing vehicles and their impact on local dairy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stringer
Relics of Empress Malmaison Open to Public in France
Paris reports the Malmaison villa, Josephine’s former home, opened as a government museum on June 1. The exhibit showcases 500 damask and tapestry samples, Napoleonic furnishings, Josephine’s bed and toilette, and a harp she never learned to play. It traces her life from Creil to Malmaison, through marriage, divorce, and death, with documents and letters orbiting Napoleon’s rise and fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Josephine
Napoleon
Malmaison
America
Champs Elysees
Arc de Triomphe
St. Germain
Croissy Village
Mahmaison
de Beauwharnais
Creissy
Italy
Croissy
Croissy!"" “Malmaison Will Be Our Home,” He Said. the Nation Had Put St. Cloud
Fontainebleau
France
Senatis-Consulto
Na Varre
Eugene
Hortense
Czar
Alexander
Elba
Chiteas Gud Gardena
Language of Baseball and Governor in Kansas News
A collection of old newspaper snippets blends playful baseball slang with political satire. The piece notes Kansas views on the new governor, railways facing anti-pass and public commission bills, and a joking wedding parson and bridegroom exchange about grammar and vows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Railways
Public Commission
Stubbs
North Carolina
Thor Ate Like A Northern Legend At Feasts
An Icelandic legend tells how Thor ate with no aid beyond rations eight salmon a grown ox many sweets and three firkins of sparkling mead making him a husky god with a mighty hammer. Northmen strove to match his trencherman prowess at feasts during bold days before indigestion and the appendix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thor
Taft Seen by Augusta Planter in Georgia Anecdote
A Georgians of Augusta recount a lighthearted story about President Taft visiting a Georgia planter. The planter's elderly cook Martha did not recognize him and quipped that he looked like the kind of man who would be regular to his meals, offering humorous local color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Taft
Her First Race and a Quip by Sunshine Verse
A playful snippet shows a bet on Bullrush at 10 to 1 and a companion remark that it is past two o'clock. The lighthearted dialogue ends with a quip about sunshine turning dust to gold yet making furniture and wallpaper look old.
A Peevish Editor Describes a Struggling Man
A man too poor to afford a good county paper like the Democrat but able to buy a dog shotgun and a two dollar watch. He educates his children on the streets and boards his chickens on big neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Democrat
Conundrum and Punny Trivia From a Campus Page
A playful exchange among students and a judge touches on a riddle about the smallest man in history, a pun about a Roman soldier, and a joke about electric cooking. The dialogue moves through misheard names and a jab about an al fresco lunch with caterpillars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Pennsylvania
What is your husband’s chief amusement
A fragment dialogue about a wife noting her husband’s habit of doing things she dislikes while comments on tramps and their perceived lack of purpose appear. The exchange contrasts marital annoyance with social labels, ending with the line about tramps being a beats.
Breach of Promise Suit Quashes Geraldine Belief
Geraldine dismisses flirting costs as too high and recalls the last attempt led to a breach of promise suit. Gerald expresses personal caution, noting legal risk in romantic advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geraldine
Gerald
The Finish and Salting a Diamond Mine Tale
Willie teased the Hon at the circus and will never show interest in another act. Howard DuBois shared a mining tale with Tech men about salting a diamond mine. A South African farmer’s soil assay led to eight diamonds found and rumors of more. In Sunday school, a noisy class ended when staff asked if they wanted a teacher, yielding quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Hon
Howard DuBois
Tech
South Africa
John
Little Girl and Shopkeeper Scene Sparks Dark Humor
A fragmented dialogue hints at a grim vignette where a girl asks for bread and butter while a shopkeeper jokes about fire and a lazy friend named Polk. Moonlit setting contrasts with the unsettling exchange and implied danger. The tone resembles a period newspaper brief with stark, terse line.
The Old School Editor and His Whisky Jug Tale
A quip portrays a bygone editor as old school with a whisky jug for friends and a six shooter for foes, illustrating a frontier newsroom ethos and colorful legend. The remark captures mythic media bravado linked to a bygone era.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lady Arabella
By Molly Elliot Seawell
Babbe-Morri
Berkeley Square
Jermyn Street
Giles
Lord Winstanley
Mrs. Trenchard
Lady Hawkshaw
Almack's
Stormont
Sir Peter Hawkshaw
Giles Vernon
Mr. Vernon
Unreasonable Hubby
New French Museum
Empress Josephine
Umps
A&a
Wilbur Wright
G Brothers
Red Causey
Bill Stubbs
Littleton
Walter
Manchester Guardian
Polk
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!