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!
Odds and Ends From a 19th Century Paper
A collage of quirky notes and brief items from Lincoln to Lawrence. references range from Vienna tourism and a Danish biennial to a Kansas schoolyard shooting and a New England lecture, with curios including a 3-foot lobster off England, a 100-year-old age claim, and a widow preserving Thalberg in her salon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Goethe
Christ
Vienna
Lawrence
Kansas
Boston
M. Thalberg
Des Moines
Shack Nasty Jim
Harper's Weekly
Hannah Inman
Rhode Island
Tyndall
Belfast
British Association
Howard County
Europe
America
Barbour County
Pope Pius LX
Sidney Hill
Kalamazoo
George Sand
George
Laura Fair
San Francisco
Keokuk
Roxbury
Mass
Herr Rossie
Meetie Chase Waughop
Signor Blitz
Muskegon
Michigan
Constantinople
England
Alexander Burrows
Oswego
State Normal School
Salem
Cliquot
C. BF
FH. Peters
Izaak Walton
London
Mr. Foote
Wisconsin
Winona Fair
Franklin