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A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The first basketball game was played in 1891. Let’s see some original newspaper articles about the “new” sport from 1892.

A look at the artist who crafted life masks of eminent Americans from the early Republic.

(Post)man’s best friend.

“It has been named ‘Billy Possum,’ and for the present is to be retained in Rebecca’s cage.”

“[S]aved from death by President Coolidge’s distaste for that particular delicacy.”

“Saving, in the abstract, is, of course, a perfunctory process as compared with purposeful saving for a home…”

〜An October week promoting better homes for Americans in 1922〜

〜Reviewing a powerful search engine for archived newspapers〜

〜Contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Anna Jarvis’s successful effort to make Mother’s Day a holiday in the United States〜