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!
Notable Oddities and Accidents Across Rivers and Posts
A Postmaster’s salary mix up over a 31 cent shortfall costs him $100 next year. A boy catches a four pound bass in Salamonie rapids by drawing it to shore. A Cologne fire brigade rescues a swallow from a church nest. Reports cover river risks in Elkton Ohio and a strange rainfall with sulphur in Colorado pools. Also notes on animals prices, Canton boat people, and a suicide tied to a mining fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Post Office
J. H. Wood
Monpelier
Ind
Salamonie
Elkton
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Big Beaver River
John Hawkins
Cologne
Germany
Canton
China
Iver
Colorado
Mary Berry
Detroit
John Berry
Brevoort
Mary