American eagle invades Canada at Sandwich Ontario
Reports from Detroit News describe an exhausted American eagle landing on a house roof in Sandwich Ontario. A crowd formed and a man named Clyde Thornton captured the bird after a tense chase through town. The eagle was identified by Thornton as Roosevelt and fed meat offerings followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich
Lot and
Peter Streets
Detroit News
Clyde Thornton
Peters Street
Roosevelt
Thornton
Statues of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmett reach New York’s Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York receives seven Sekhmett statues purchased in England in 1914. The pieces, dating back over thirty centuries, trace early modern archaeology’s rise as Payptian sculptors carved Mut figures in granite for temple decoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Sekhmett
Mut
England
Karnac
Maur
Thiny 8
Mosquito Not Sole Malaria Carrier Says Doctor
Doctor Roux argues after 20 years of study that malaria can spread without mosquitoes. He notes malarial outbreaks coincide with soil disturbance for planting and concedes Anopheles may spread malaria but is not the only infection route. He suggests bad air and soil emanations may also play a role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Roux
St. Louis Hospital
Jeriusalems
Beliefs About World's End Across Faiths
The Mohammedans regard the end time as a perfect secret known only to God. Gabriel admitted his ignorance when asked by Muhammad. Christians vary in certainty about the time and anticipated immediate fulfillment, citing Jesus words that this generation will not pass before his words are accomplished. Centuries passed with no apocalypse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gabriel
Mohammed
Christianity of All
Jesus
Royal Grapes at Low Prices in France
The article notes royal grapes from the king’s estate at Fontainebleau were sold in September by ward. About 600 kilos were auctioned for 25 francs, while common grapes on Mauris street barrels cost far more per pound. The piece implies a surprising bargain amid fluctuating prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Pontainebleau
Omedis
Curtiss Ocean Flight Headlines Stir New York Evening Post
The July 7 1910 New York Evening Post recaps the era’s aviation feats as Curtiss flies 1 300 feet above waves near the coast and stays aloft for over a minute amid crowds, after a near wreck at takeoff and a quick propeller blade replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enghand
Mineola
New York
Athaetic
Curtiss
Ost
Salvation Army Honored by Victoria Cross Awards
The piece notes three Salvation Army soldiers receiving Victoria Crosses for service in France, highlighting the army’s evolution from initial opposition in 1865 to a global network of about 9,000 corps and outposts in over 60 countries, with formal recognition by King Edward VII in 1904 and a Broadway tableau tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
France
Salvationists
Future Army
England
William Booth
Edward VII
Buckingham Palace
LAST HOME OF SEMINOLES
The Christian Science Monitor notes the Seminole Indians on a designated Everglades reservation and their distrust of American civilization. Minnie Moore Wilson’s NY interview praises the Seminole as upright and moral, while engineers survey their wilderness and a boundary of 500 square miles is mentioned as their domain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Everglades
Everglides
Minnie Moore Wilson
New York
Earth
Mrs. Wilson
Christian Science Monitor
Peter's Partner Keeps Sea Home in Quiet Winter
On a lonely beach porch Peter, a cheerful lifelong guardian, contemplates loneliness and friendship with Nell his ward. A weary older man asks to share Peter's home with his money to keep the sea-side residence, promising freedom in return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Jin
Old Peter
Nell
Daddy Peter
Dave
Veter
Jeanette
John
English Hotel in Paris and Its Notable Guests
An 18th century English hotel opposite Notre Dame des Victoires housed visitors from the English liberal scene drawn by Parisian interest in the French Revolution. Guests included Tom Paine, cited by Lord Fitzgerald, among others, with the hotel tied to the era’s Terror and political ferment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
White
Notre Dame Des Victoires
Paris Oy
George Til
France
Tom Maine
Lord Fitzgerald
Changing Conditions in Nippon Wealth and Welfare
Abe Wobei a Yokohama merchant bequeathed 1 000 000 yen for Kana sawa prefecture welfare placed in the governor Inouye’s hands. A Osaka merchant recently gave 1 000 000 yen for a public meeting house now in use. The note shows a shift in public spirit and social welfare in Nippon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Wobei
Yokohama
Kanasawa
Inouye
Osaka
Nippon
New Lease of Life for Blind Soldiers at St Dustan’s
St Dustan's charity for blinded sisters and soldiers in England reports its greatest achievement. Sergeant Alan Nichols who lost his sight and both hands in the war has been fitted with a specially constructed machine for the blind and a pair of aluminum hands with articulated fingers, enabling a two hour test with only two corrections needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Dustan’s
England
Sergt
Alan Nichols
Beware the Inefficient Man and a Clever Interpreter
A. R. Hawley, Aero club president, warned in New York that inefficiency harms others and shared a tale of a foreigner posing as an Armenian who acted as court interpreter without knowing the language. He claimed his compatriot confessed and asked for leniency, but the judge sentenced the innocent man to five years of hard labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Hawley
Aero Elub
New York
Bealings
Armenia
London’s Past Noise Drowns Out Modern Whispers
Middle aged Londoners recall a louder capital in the sixties and seventies when granite streets and wheeled traffic created a constant roar. One observer says traffic roared as far as Crystal Palace parade, like distant thunder, a sound now barely a whisper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Crystal Palace Parade
London Chronicle
Familiar helps Conan Doyle recover war office document
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounts that his familiar guided him to dive into a waste paper basket and retrieve a valuable war office document that had blown from his desk into the basket. He notes he had never done such a thing before and credits the promptings of the familiar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
War Office
Sir Arthur
London Chronicle
Flags in the Royal Hospital hall honor American regiments
A Chelsea visit notes flags captured in the 1812 to 1815 wars on display at the Royal Hospital. The banners include units such as the Sixty-eighth and eighty-fifth regiments, the Kentucky militia flag, and U S infantry colors from Detroit and Queens Town Heights. The piece urges Britain to return them to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea
Old Royal Hospital
Charles II
Brandensberg
United States Infantry
Detroit
Queenstown Heights
America
London
YWCA to Open Hotels for Relatives of Soldiers in France
The American YWCA overseas has been asked by the U S army to open hotels to assist relatives visiting four major American military cemeteries in France. The first hotel will be at Revigny near the cemetery. Hotel Petrograd in Paris is being used for housing 200 British and French girls working with the American army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Young Women's Christian Association Overseas
United States Army
France
Revigny
Say Boss Souvenir Question From Convalescent Soldier
A dusky World War II doughboy in a recuperation hospital asks a medical orderly what he should keep as a head souvenir. The veteran speaks in a dialect as he requests a personal memento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stars and Stripes
Washington
Youths tied to March rob feel Wenatchee police report
Wenatchee World items allege two youths named Victor Olson and Ralph Bailey gave West Seattle addresses before robbing K and V Hardware in Leavenworth Friday night. They were identified as Filis Ogilvie and Alton Gerber of Wenatchee, escaped from Chehalis State Training School December 28, and later arrested in Spokane with other youths for stealing from Seattle Tacoma Wenatchee and Spokane. They will be returned to Chehalis Training School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee World
Victor Olson
Ralph Bailey
West Seattle
Leavenworth
Wenatchee
Lou Nordyke
Filis Ogilvie
Alton Gerber
Chehalis
Judge Grimshaw
Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
Local Visitors Spend Christmas Week in Town
P. A. Hertor from Plain was here Tuesday. A. H. Allen of Winton visited on business Monday. Ernest Hilton returned to Tacoma after a Christmas vacation here. W. C. Schwobel from New Rockford arrived Christmas night to join his wife and visit their daughter Mrs. Charles Cockburn before likely traveling to California for a few weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Allen
Winton
Ernest Hilton
Tacoma
W. C. Schwobel
New Rockford, N. C
Charles Cockburn
California
Chinatown Transformation Reaches Mott Street Temple
After ten years of change Chinatown adopts American influence in New York’s Mott Street temple. The joss and smaller idols were moved to a dusty closet, ending the temple’s traditional ritual centerpiece once seen as the highlight of gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinatown
Jess
Mott Street
Temple
New York Times
Also Mentioned on This Page
Canada
EAGLE
Bird
Western Newspaper Union
Lass Neisy
Conan Doyle
Jack Wilson
THEM
P. A. Hertor
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!