Top Stories published by Reporting History in August of 2024

Valuable Roman Armor Uncovered by Plowman (1924)

The Cordele Dispatch and Daily Sentinel, Cordele, Georgia, August 29, 1924

KARAGATCH, Bulgaria, Aug, 9 (AP) — A peasant plowing near this village turned up one of the most interesting archeological finds made in recent…


August 14, 1861 — From Fortress Monroe

The Lambertville Press, Lambertville, NJ

Fortress Monroe, August 10 — The steamship Quaker City arrived this morning with the prize schooner George G. Baker, of Galveston, and her confederate crew of four men in irons.


Dramatic Scene Marks First Day Of Murder Trial

Arizona Republican, Phoenix, AZ, August 17, 1921

TOMBSTONE. Ariz, Aug. 16. The first day of the trial of James Haverty, charged with murdering his brother, Richard, on April 21, came to a sensational close this evening when…


Seeing the Monkey

American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper, Baltimore, MD, August 18, 1846

We saw a German yesterday who was complaining very bitterly of having lost his watch by means of that stale old trick known as the “box game.” It appears that together with a comrade, he was…


August 23, 1861 — Admiral Milne and the Blockade

The Eastern Clarion, Paulding, MS

A Canadian paper says — ”Admiral Milne has now assembled at Halifax the largest and finest squadron that has ever been seen in American waters. On the arrival of additional vessels on…


August 26, 1861 — The New State

Daily Intelligencer, Wheeling, VA (WV)

From the Morgantown Star.

The name of the proposed new State formed from this portion of Virginia — Kanawha — is not the one we would have given, but it is, nevertheless, a very…

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