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The Western New Yorker (Warsaw, NY) Thursday, April 18, 1940 One question asked in the latest Fortune Poll was what kind of public construction—Federal power plants, flood control, big national highways, or airports—would be the most important of which to spend money in order to build a better and stronger nation. The tabulation of answers—and […]
This post is part of the January 2013 Blog Chain at Absolute Write. The prompt for this month is “The Number 13.” I decided, for this particular prompt, the best choice for a historian would be to post thirteen hot spots in my area to visit if you ever get this way. If you […]
Bread & Butter is the true story of Polly Frisch who poisoned her family with arsenic in the 1850s, and the five trials it took to convict her. By Cindy Amrhein (HistorySleuth) & Ellen Lea Bachorski Polly stayed by her husband, Henry Hoag, day and night all through his illness that July of 1856. […]
No, I did not just pull this from today’s headlines. If you notice this post is in my It’s All Happened Before category. I come across quite a few newspaper articles that give me the deja vu willies. For reference, according to Measuring Worth, using the contemporary standard of living scale $20 today (before taxes) is […]
I had twelve bottles of whiskey… … is an example of the kind of post I eluded to on my About Sleuth’s Blog page as being inconsequential musing. It serves no purpose other than being pretty damn funny. It’s one of the many anonymous blurbs I come across while clipping old newspapers at work for […]