An elopement frustrated – Aberdeen Evening Express, 17 July 1888: A singular scene was (says a correspondent) witnessed in the Citadel Station, Carlisle, yesterday morning, when the police frustrated the elopement of a lady and gentleman from the Lake...
Eccentric woman’s death at Colchester – Essex Standard, 28 January 1899: The circumstances attending the death of Eleanor Neale, a spinster, aged 72, residing in Lucas Road, Colchester, have given rise to a good deal of local gossip. Deceased had lived in...
Right royal mistake – Derby Mercury, 26 October 1786: ANECDOTE of the late KING of PRUSSIA. It is well known, that amongst the numerous Body of Prussian Troops, the King formed one Regiment which he call the “Immortal Corps of tall Grenadiers;” so named,...
Mutiny of Mormon converts – The Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph, 18 February 1898: Terrible fight in a train. A special telegram from New York to the Newcastle Journal states that at Cheyenne a carload of 60 Scandinavian converts to...
Tiny hoop wows women – Aberdeen Journal, 24 September 1902: The Sheepshead Bay Racecourse, New York, was the other day the scene of an extraordinary demonstration. A jockey named Washington Breassal, who is only nine years old, rode Ipse Dixit,...
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