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The Great Grasshopper Raid
A variety of grasshopper plague related news spanning from 1819 through 1948, some of it reporting on the devastation, some explaining the methods used to try to limit the damage, mixed in with quite...
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You Say Korea, They Say Corea
Corea – Korea: How do we spell thee? In the 1870s, it was spelled COREA. EXPEDITION TO COREA. – A New York special of the 31st inst., says: The frigate Colorado, and the corvettes Alaska and Benicia,...
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A Columbus Smörgåsbord of Sorts
Chirstopher Columbus (Image from http://www.bonney.org) A San Domingo dispatch says that the remains of Christopher Columbus have been found there. It is proposed to erect a monument over them,...
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Webster’s Right, Times Are Tite
So let’s skip the cake and presents, and celebrate Noah Webster’s birthday (Oct .16th) with words from the past: A Philadelphia paper has ascertained that Noah Webster used to play euchre and steal...
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We Were Merry Making Hay
[From THE ALDINE for July.] RAKING HAY. ‘Twas in the days of mowing With honest arm and scythe; When neighbors helped in neighbors’ fields And harvest hands were blithe. For me, I grew a stripling –...
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The Tee Total Pledge
THE PICTURE. – Note 1, the object at which they are aiming, viz, the removal of a nuisance, — the total overthrow of the rum casks. All the parties engaged seem to have this object in view, and all...
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Left My Bed and Board
Perplexing Case. Hon. James H. Knowlton, one of our most eminent Western advocates, met with the following perplexing adventure in his early practice in Wisconsin: A stranger came into his office and...
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Corsets for Everyone
This poetic advertisement ran in the newspaper back in 1885: How dear to my heart is the “Comfort Hip” Corset, A well moulded figure ‘twas made to adorn, I’m sure, as an elegant, close fitting corset,...
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Sitting Bull, Great Chief of the Sioux
A FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF. Sitting Bull, the Great Chief of the Sioux, His Peculiar Character. [Special Correspondence] ST PAUL, Sept. 18 — Probably when the facts are all known it will be discovered that...
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San Jacinto Day – Brief History of What Occurred
The Legislature having made the 21st of April a holiday, in commemoration of the Battle of San Jacinto — a day forever sacred with all Texans — it is but proper this morning to publish a brief review...
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