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A Saucy Young Widower of Eighty-Four Elopes With A Widow of Forty The romantic elopement of a Northwich widower, aged eighty-four, with a widow of forty summers, came to light, and created considerable sensation in the town. A few days ago the widow left for Winsford, taking with her boxes of her own, and, it is presumed, her admirer's clothing. Subsequently the old man withdrew all his savings from the bank, and intimating to his daughter, with whom he lived, that he would return for tea, also disappeared.

#OTD #History news (1899) - I'm sure we can unpack a lot in this one...

11.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

County Buys Big Shovel Dredge Coming to Be Used in Drainage Work in the East End of District Benton county expects to accept delivery within a few days of a medium sized dredging shovel which is being bought by the county for use in the various localities where land is going bad thru subbing and where the present drainage systems have proven inadequate. There are several thousand acres of land in the county that are becoming worthless from this cause and where the district itself is unable to ﬁnance the necessary operations to restore the land to productivity.

#OTD #CivilEngineering #History news (1926) - County gearing up for drainage work.

11.03.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wife Seeks More Table Money from Hubby, Camden, N. J. Camden, N. J., Mar. 9.—(AP)—Suit to force a husband to pay more "table money" for his board was argued today in the chancery court here. The case was regarded as without precedent in this tribunal. Mrs. Aida O. Smith, Palmyra, N. J., complainant in the suit, testified she demanded a minimum of $20 weekly from her husband, Walter E. Smith, a druggist, employed at Roebling, N.

#OTD #History news (1926) - "Maawidge, maawidge is what brings us together here today..."

Or, not exactly.

10.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bagpipes Will Cheer Mearns on in His Channel Swim Mr James Mearns, of the Aberdeen Amateur Swimming Club, has arrived at Dover in readiness for another attempt swim across the English Channel. He accompanied by Mr Cruickshanks, the president of the Aberdeen Amateur Swimming Club, who has the arrangements for the swim in hand. Mr Peter Mearns, brother the swimmer, is also among the party this year, and has taken his bagpipes with him, so that there will some music while swim in progress.

Happy #internationalbagpipeday - how about some sporting #History news with bagpipes?

10.03.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inspiration to get back to my own giant stitchery project! only a bazillion stitches left to go 😆

10.03.2026 02:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just love that they're all just strolling along the ice while the icebreaker rams on through. There's probably a guy setting up a sauna next to the open water as it went by...

09.03.2026 19:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

London’s First Car Show? The facilities offered by the great building and extensive grounds of the Crystal Palace have many times, since its primary employment as the domicile of the first Great International Exhibition of all Nations in 1851, been turned to good account in fostering the industries of this nation. There exists at the moment in this country an industry—that of the manufacture of self-propelling vehicles for use upon common roads—which is scarcely yet beyond its nascent condition, but which is far more advanced, and indeed has assumed considerable magnitude, in other countries, and in regard to which proper publicity and demonstration cannot be given in this country under existing legislation, except in extensive private grounds such as those attached to the Crystal Palace.

#OTD #London #History news (1896) - announcement for "Exhibition of a comprehensive and International character of all things appertaining to the Road, to Travel, and to Mechanical Roads Locomotion" to be held at the Crystal Palace.

09.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

March 9, 1863 – Sutlers’ Smuggling Efforts Every train that arrives and departs from the landing has a full representation of the bone and sinew of the army. The inveterate sutlers, though they go to an immense deal of trouble to devise modes of smuggling goods of a contraband nature through, generally are frustrated in the end, though they be successful enough to evade the authorities for a short time.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - I'm sure the authorities saw the whisky went to good use...

09.03.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Police Use Hatchets in Saloon Raid Smash Bar, Mirror, Glasses, Etc., and Pour Beer Into the Gutter Chicago, March 9.—(AP)—Police, armed with hatchets, raided a near northside saloon last night and wrecked it after the manner made famous by Carrie Nation. In spite of the fact that the establishment had obtained an injunction against police interference, the raiders smashed the bar, smashing the mirror, glasses and other equipment and then, emptied beer into the gutters.

#OTD #Chicago #Prohibition #History news (1926) - remember the days when the Feds would "carefully study" legal injunctions before ignoring them?

09.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wine Goes Begging In German Markets At 15 Cents a Quart BERLIN, March 6.—Thousands of gallons of two and three year old wine are going bogging at 15 cents a quart In the wine-growing valleys of the Moselle, Saar and Ruhr, where the growers are desperately in need of money and are willing to convert their stocks into cash at almost any figure. Even at 15 cents a quart, which is exclusive of the federal tax of 20 per cent, there are few buyers.

#OTD #German #Wine #History (1926) - Growers need money, wine for a song.

08.03.2026 00:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The American Tariff House of Lords—March 3 The Earl of CLARENDON wished to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, what compensation would be given to merchants who were injured by the new tariff, established by the United States, several provisions of which constituted an infraction of treaties existing between that country and England. There was great injustice done to British merchants, and by that very country which took every care to insist on the full appropriation to itself of all rights or advantages guaranteed by the very treaties they were constantly violating or evading.

#OTD #Trade & #Diplomacy #History news (1845) - Questions brought up in #HouseofLordsUK regarding American tariffs.

06.03.2026 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Court Sees “Grizzly” Dance - Reporting History Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terpischorean Illustration and Convinces Judge. Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the "grizzly bear" in Municipal court here to s...

see also: attorney doing the Grizzly Bear (I may need to go do some more articles on this 😀 )

www.reporting-history.com/2024/04/24/c...

05.03.2026 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“High Flier” Planning Air Trip Over Everest PARIS, Mar. 4—By the simple process of flying over Mount Everest, tallest mountain in the world, M. Callizo, daring French flier, hopes to accomplish what climbers have failed many times to do. Numerous expeditions have fought their way through the lower recess the Himalayas only to be compelled to turn back when they were within striking distance of the top. The last such expedition ended tragically.

#OTD #French #Aviation #History news (1926) - Callizo to attempt altitude record over Everest.

04.03.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, it makes me want to put someone's head in a woodchipper...

04.03.2026 19:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Part two of the podcast will touch upon Clinton's later years as an award-winning musician.

04.03.2026 18:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Churchill wrote enough books about Churchill so we don't have to.

04.03.2026 18:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a reason Massholes don't actually like the Kennedy's.

OK, a lot of reasons...

04.03.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Imperialism Has Done El Nacionalista de Ponce for Feb. 20th in an extremely interesting article gives its readers to understand that the Porto Rican people have been reduced to the level of serfs without religion, patriotism, or shame, and that a government of gold has been constituted here for the benefit of Yankee corporations. Yankee imperialism is in need of servile Porto Rican labor it contends.

#OTD #PuertoRican #History News (1926) - Nothing to say on this one that wasn't said better by Bad Bunny.

03.03.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coolidge Believes Air Fund Too Big Regards $85,000,000 Program of Navy Conflicts With Peace Economy. President Coolidge does not approve the five-year building program for the Naval Air Service, calling for an appropriation of $85,000,000, which has been reported out by the House naval affairs Committee. The President considers this sum far too large to coincide with his ideas of a peace time expenditure for aircraft. He also thinks the amount exceeds what the Aircraft Board appointed by him to make recommendations for proper development had in mind.

#OTD #Aviation #NavalHistory news (1926) - Coolidge balks at naval air expenditures.

03.03.2026 01:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Fishing From The Wharf Sir, —I beg to ask why fishing on the Queen-street Wharf has been put a stop to. This is hard on the poor. Many a scanty meal, if supplemented by a few schnapper, would be more appetising and satisfying to a hungry family. The order against fishing on the wharf cannot have arisen for want of space. Whole bees are often without a ship, so that downright cussedness must have caused this hard order to be issued; Wellington, where there is three times the shipping, the wharf is crowded with fishermen, all day long.

#OTD #Auckland #NewZealand #History news (1895) - City politicians stop pier fishing, causing outrage.

01.03.2026 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Six Expeditions Will Start This Summer To Locate North Pole Mystery of North Sea Will Be Lure Many Explorers Byrd and Wade Will Lead American Expeditions Into Ice Bound North NEW YORK, March 1 (AP)—The urge that sent Hendrik Hudson battling through polar seas in 1807 in search of a northwest passage to the spice islands of the east today still stirs the blood of modern explorers who seek to solve the mysteries of the northern seas.

#OTD #Arctic #Exploration #History news (1926) - Byrd and Wade to lead expeditions to the pole.

01.03.2026 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boy Scouts To Clean Winslow Landing Field Following completion of leveling and grading the runways of Winslow’s new municipal landing field, which will be finished some time this week, the Boy Scouts, upholding their creed of “doing a good turn daily” will turn out Saturday and start work of clearing the entire field of old tin cans which have been dumped on the grounds in days gone by, so that Winslow’s new field will present a spick and span appearance to birdmen who will light here in the future.

#OTD #Arizona #History news. 1926 - #BoyScouts step up to clear out new landing field.

26.02.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Deny Wine Served By A Nude Girl In A Bath Tub Full Wine New York. Feb. 24.—(AP)—While Broadway gossiped today of a bacchanalian party reported to have been given Monday night by Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, on the Great White Way, the official investigations to ascertain the facts were started. Police Commissioner McLaughlin took steps to determine whether there was a display of nudity and prohibition agents made preparations to learn whether a bathtub full of wine was served, as had been reported.

#OTD #Theater #History - Raise your hand if you want to go back to a time when nude bathtub wine was our worst scandal.

25.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Little Italy” Gang Kills 41st Victim Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands." Deportations Asked. CHICAGO, February 24. —As immigration inspectors prepared deportation proceedings against a dozen aliens taken in raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up next week, a man, identified as Baldelli, the Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today. He was the forty-first victim of gang warfare in recent years.

#OTD #Chicago #History news (1926) - Gang murder victim found, raids on "undesirables" ongoing.

24.02.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That sounds delightful, and would go great with the gingerbread loaf I just put in, because it's snowing and I have a craving for a cup of tea and gingerbread. As one does.

22.02.2026 21:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dry Agents Not to Buy Expensive Booze New York, Feb. 21—(AP)—A federal order has been issued instructing prohibition agents in this city to confine their purchase of liquor evidence to the less expensive drinks, such as gin or whiskey, selling from 50 cents to a dollar a drink, and to refrain buying champagne and other of the more expensive drinks. Federal officials said today that henceforth in their drive to padlock places selling liquor, the agents will no longer purchase champagne at $20 and $25 a quart. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, February. 22, 1926

#OTD #Prohibition news 1926 - Agents in sting operations instructed to buy cheap cocktails and not splash out for champagne.

Sure, take away the one job perk...

22.02.2026 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 21, 1863 – One of the Heroic Women A naval command should be bestowed on the heroine of this achievement. Among the American vessels captured by the pirate Retribution, was the American brigantine J. P. Ellicott of Bucksport, Me., A. Deveraux, master. Her officers and crew were taken on board the pirate and placed in irons. A crew was placed on board the brig, consisting of Gilbert Hay, prizemaster, recently from fort Lafayette; and John Gilbert, mate; and five seamen.

#OTD #CivilWar #MaritimeHistory news - One of the ladies takes back the ship.

21.02.2026 21:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Sound of Silence Cover in Classical Latin (BARDCORE) YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner

ok all the "post a banger that is not in English" posts? I have a bunch, but how about this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3c...

21.02.2026 02:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

And to you as well!

20.02.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 19, 1863 – News From St. Louis St. Louis, Feb. 18, 1863. The great iron-clad gunboat Neosho was launched to-day at 4 o’clock. She is designed on the Monitor plan. Gen. Davidson’s division has been joined to the army of the frontier, and not attacked, as the telegraph blunderingly said lately.

#OTD #CivilWar news - USS Neosho launched, and other items from St. Louis.

19.02.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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