Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
West’s week of disasters claims hundreds of lives
Friday, 05 March 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, from the newspapers of March 5, 1910.
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holy urine cure
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00
March 3, 1812. Taken as a drink or applied externally, urine has been called the world’s oldest medicine. A 5,000-year-old religious Sanskrit text, the Damar Tantra, extolled its benefits.
The world’s most murderous country
Friday, 26 February 2010 00:00
Clippings from the newspapers of February 26, 1929.
London Free Press. “The United States is, among all the civilized nations of the world, the country in which the crime of murder is most frequently committed and least frequently punished,” former Cornell University president Andrew D. White tells Cornell students in a speech at Ithaca, New York. Five hundred murders are said to be committed each year. White condemned “over-wrought sentimentality in favour of the criminals. Germs of maudlin sentimentality are widespread. On every hand we hear of sympathy; the criminal called ‘plucky,’ ‘nervy,’ ‘fighting against fearful odds for his life.’.. I have no sympathy for the criminal.”
Klondike gold rushers face danger in murderous Skagway
Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00
Clippings from the newspapers of February 19, 1898.
Victoria Colonist. Violent crime at Skagway, Alaska makes this a dangerous stopover for Klondikers headed for the gold fields of the Yukon. Alaska Governor Brady has written to U.S. interior secretary Bliss, seeking federal help. “News from Skagway by the steamer now in port [in Anchorage] is serious,” Brady writes. “The United States deputy marshal has been shot dead in the discharge of his duties. Another man was killed at the same time and at the same place. Recently the steamers have been carrying great lists of passengers; many of them are gamblers, thugs and lewd women from the western centres and from the cities of the Coast.”
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A brouhaha over Lordships
Monday, 15 February 2010 00:00
February 15, 1929. Toronto Globe.
“Proposal for a return to titles for Canadians seemed to have been laughed to a permanent death” during two days of heated debate in the House of Commons, according to the Globe.
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