Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
Fight of the century triggers U.S. race riots
Friday, 18 June 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago today, June 18, 1910.
Halifax Herald. California’s “sporting fraternity is much cast down,” fearing that Governor James N. Gillette has sounded the death knell for prize fighting in the golden state. In response to “insistent protests from all parts of the state,” Gillette wrote to U.S. Attorney General Web to stop a fight between James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson, scheduled for July 4 in San Francisco. Gillette cited an 1850 banning prize fighting in California.
Lament for the hanging of a 17-year-old murderer
Friday, 11 June 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of June 11, 1910.
The Peterborough Review laments the hanging of a youth:
We’ll take over your government George B. Shaw tells America
Friday, 04 June 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of June 4, 1910.
Winnipeg Free Press. Britain should take over the U.S. government because America is unfit to govern itself, George Bernard Shaw writes in a special dispatch from London. Britain’s Irish playwright was responding to a controversial speech by former U.S. President Col. Theodore Roosevelt in which the Rough Rider urged Britain to take over the government of Egypt. Shaw writes, in part:
Read more: We’ll take over your government George B. Shaw tells America
Female dreams end when wed
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 00:00
June 2, 1879. The Winnipeg Times examines the tendency of women to idealize the men they are about to marry.
Victims of a disease. Toronto drunks need help
Friday, 28 May 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of May 28, 1910.
Peterborough Review. Toronto’s drunkards are victims of a disease and need help, the Review argues.
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