A Remarkable Newspaper – the “Londra Roma”

by jules on August 5, 2010

A Remarkable Newspaper – Written, edited, set in type, printed and published by one man.
(Article originally published in 1902)
Up to the year 1888 the eighteen  thousand Italians domiciled in the United Kingdom were without a representative newspaper published in this country.  Owing to this, many engaged in business were hindered considerably in mercantile transactions owing [...]

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The Dream Chapel

July 29, 2010

This was published in a magazine in 1900, so it must have occured in the late 1800’s. Anyone know about this chapel?
“Consider a remarkable little mediaeval church which was discovered through a dream. A young woman living in a village near Pirot, in Servia, dreamed one night of a buried church. . She spoke of [...]

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Sheepeaters Monument Thunder Mountain Idaho

July 25, 2010

The striking photograph reproduced above shows a curious work of Nature near Thunder Mountain, Idaho, U.S.A. This gigantic monolith is eighty feet high, and about ten or twelve feet square at the base, tapering towards the top to about seven feet or less. The great rock poised on the top is estimated to weigh fully [...]

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At the Mercy of a Bear in 1844

July 24, 2010

Here is an interesting true tale from an adventure  magazine published in 1898
AT   A   BEAR’S   MERCY.
THOUGH during my sojourn in Scandinavia I was in at the death or capture of one hundred and two bears, the larger portion of which were bagged when I was alone, so to say, and   though   often   in   considerable  jeopardy,   [...]

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Communism not dead!

July 20, 2010

How easily the masses are duped, comrade..”Communism is dead, the Cold War is over”…I think not, quite the reverse in fact…

This from 1926, the year of the General Strike. One of my ancestors administered Strike pay to local  miners,( given by the Kremlin). I understand why many of the poor who are ground down by [...]

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Tigers on the Indian Railways 1900

July 19, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)
Railwaymen in foreign lands often carry on their work under conditions that would appal their fellow-workers at home. On certain Central African railways, for instance, trains have frequently been charged by rhinoceroses and other large beasts ; and an unhappy telegraph operator on the Uganda Railway, on returning to [...]

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Oil Fire at Spindle Top 1900

July 15, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)

This photo shows an oil “gusher”, and a tank containing 37,000 barrels of oil on fire at the “Spindle Top”  oil-field in Texas. Just 3 weeks after the great fire at Jennings, the tank seen on the left of the photograph was mysteriously ignited. Everything hereabouts, even the very [...]

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Caught in a Prairie “Muskeg” 1900

July 14, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)
This photograph represents an unpleasant and rather exciting experience which occasionally falls to the lot of the Western settler. The correspondent who sends us the photograph writes as follows :
” We were driving out to a ranch and had diverged from the trail in order to see a fine [...]

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The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud

July 12, 2010

By Dorothy von Heisman.
(Published 1903)
The story of one of the most remarkable frauds ever perpetrated upon a life insurance company. How two men and a woman obtained fifty thousand dollars by means of a clever plot and got safely away with the money. The fraud was only discovered by the merest accident.
ONE of the cleverest [...]

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Sleeping ship on the Delaware River – 1900

July 11, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)
This striking photograph shows a unique accident which happened recently at Marcus Hook, on the Delaware River. The French barque Alice and Isabelle was lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier, after her cargo had been unloaded, when suddenly, after a few preliminary shakes to warn the crew, [...]

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