May 14, 2024 - Reporting History

Great Barrier Reef Now a Danger Zone

The Navy Office at Townsville, released the information recently that all openings in the Great Barrier Reef, from just south of Cairns to the New Guinea coast, had been mined.…

Maritime & Naval History

War Cost to Date

About $3,000,000 a Day the Average Expense of Fitting Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special).—The first twenty-nine days of the war which the United States is waging against the kingdom of…

Local Histories

Disputes Over Merits of U.S. and Spain

Providence, June 23.—Horace G. Mullen will spend 30 days in jail because of a dispute in which he participated as to the relative merits of the United States and Spain.…

Daily News

Visiting Miners Watched at Pocahontas

Bluefield, W. Va., May 13 — The condition of the strike is unchanged. Govornor O’Ferrall, of Virginia, is still at Pocahontas. The troops will remain. The governor says an outbreak…

US Civil War

May 14, 1861 – Show Your Colors, Gentlemen!

While nearly every one around is showing his attachment to the Union in one way or another, we regret to say that we have not had the pleasure of seeing…