"Prefers Jail to Husband" is an arresting headline that led me on another vintage newspaper detour recently. I justify going down these journalistic rabbit holes by saying that they're newspaper serendipity. That's my [...]

Found under the innocuous headline Society News, this 1934 German visitor to Milwaukee praises Germany's new leader. Sometimes searching in newspapers is not so serendipitous. Offered without further comment, except to say that this [...]

Today's post is about newspaper serendipity in 1884 Brooklyn. I love newspaper research. Even in those somewhat seasick days of cranking a microfilm reader, reading old newspapers has always been my jam. And I [...]