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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…”

Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.

Reviewing a now-defunct powerful search engine for old newspapers.

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