Tag Archives: Newspapers

Where ICE in lieu of ice is an amusing typo…

A way to refine your collection of RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds (mileage may vary depending on the site)

Where we discover that early basket ball was sometimes uncomfortably close to football.

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

Australian woman sets an impossibly low bar for NYC men and then praises them for clearing it.

(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.”

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

〜An 1895 French homing pigeon experiment from a steamship〜

〜The feathered news couriers of Manhattan in 1895〜

〜A reflection on living under 2 of the 21 gubernatorial resignations under pressure in U.S. history – Spitzer in 2008 and Cuomo in 2021〜