Today's Old News

111 cockfight fans nabbed in Montreal police raid

Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00

One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of March 19, 1910.

Montreal Star. A squad of more than 30 police raided the stables of horse carter Daniel Donnelly Sunday morning where a cockfight was underway.

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Ragged street merchants newsboys need a haven

Friday, 12 March 2010 00:00

Ninety ago, from the newspapers of March 12, 1920.
Toronto World. “Give to Newsboys’ Building Fund,” exhorts the World, in a “Campaign for Home and Gymnasium [that] Should Appeal to All Who Feel the Need of Social Assistance.”

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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.

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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.”

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