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!
Scattered Anecdotes and Local Oddities Across Papers
A mosaic of items from Deadwood to Albany notes a Corsican mix of mischief and mischance. Jerseys lost to pleuro-pneumonia, a Boston belle joke, a New York judge and a thief who stole twenty dollars, and observations from Troy to Wheeling reflect a national string of short curios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Sutton
West
United States
Daniel Webster
Marshfield
Walter Hall
Boston
Boston Journal
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Archibald Ford
Detroit Free Press
North Carolina
Sumter County
Boston Record
Maryland
Guelph
Cun
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Washington Irving
Hudson
Nyack
N. Y
Troy Times
Samuel Gilbert
Georgetown
N. J
Mr. Gilbert
Mrs. Gilbert
N. Y. Sun
England
Liverpool
South Kensington
Saverien Hope
Boston Herald
Wheeling
W. Va