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!
Miscellaneous Facts From 1940s News Rounds
A collection of brief items notes tomatin as a tomato derived antibiotic, 1947 Sing Sing admissions rising to 1,551 with 1,769 inmates now, an early England contract for marine insurance in 1583, tropics rich in water power, Mussolini’s start as a schoolteacher, historic beliefs about animal organs in foods, Persian rug motif symbols like nightingale and rose, annual gum sticks per person around 120, Dred a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel on slavery, and a stray line: NOTIONS! OF THIS 7 ONE wane.