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!
Distant echoes of politics and plague in a disjointed era
The column surveys global affairs and domestic jitters including political maneuvering in New York and New Hampshire, yellow fever reports in Granada Mississippi and emigration plans from an Ottawa border scene. It notes Professor Joan H. Raymond of Vassar's death, Paris Exposition prizes, and unsettled European tensions with Austria and Serbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buen
Burren
Ife
Joan H. Raymond
Vassar College
New York
Chicago
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Denver
Colorado
California
Workingmen’s Party
China
Paris
Washington
Gen. Myer
Signal Service Bureau
Denver Tribune
Cheyenne
Granada
Mississippi
Memphis
Jackson
Union
Ottawa
Canada
Orangemen
Guy Fawkes
Dominion
Francis Joseph
Austria
Alsance
Lorraine
United States