Paderewski, Jean Ignasce (Polish pianist, composer and statesman, 1860-1941)
   Stops overnight in El Paso, TX (1900)

Panama Canal
   Nevada Man Makes a Trip (1911)

Pawnee, USS (screw sloop, 1859)
   Firing at Fort Sumter (1861)
   In the Philadelphia Navy Yard (1861)
   Pawnee Leaves Washington for Norfolk (1861)
   Little Doubt Pawnee ordered to Charleston (1861)
   A Note on the Pawnee’s Engines (1861)
   Pawnee at Philadelphia (1861)
   Pawnee Arrives at Washington (1861)
   Pawnee's Engines Questioned (1861)
   Pawnee Honors Mount Vernon (1861)
   Pawnee at Washington Navy Yard (1861)
   
   Official Orders & Correspondence
     April 1, 1861 (To Rowan from Buchanan)
     April 4, 1861 (To Rowan from Welles)
     April 5, 1861 (To Rowan from Welles)
     April 6, 1861 (To Welles from Buchanan)
     April 8, 1861 (To Welles from McCauley)
     April 10, 1861 (To Welles from Rowan)
     April 19, 1861 (To Welles from Rowan)
     April 19, 1861 (To Rowan from Welles)

   Ship's Log Extracts
     April 12, 1861
     April 13, 1861
     April 14, 1861
     April 15, 1861
     April 20, 1861
     April 21, 1861
     April 22, 1861
     April 23, 1861

Pelletier d'Oisy, Georges  (French aviator, 1892–1953) 
   French Aviator Is Now at Agra, India (1924)
   d’Oisy Will Continue Flight in Chinese Plane (1924)

Pennsylvania (state of)
   Philadelphia
     A Sharp Pair of Thieves (1867)
   Tramps Steering Clear of Allegheny (1892)

Persia
   Outwitted the Orientals (1911)

Peru
   Archaeology
     To Dig Into Man’s Past (1912)

Peruvian, SS (Steamship, Montreal Ocean Steamship Company / Allen Line)
   Disaster to an Ocean Steamer (1872)

Petrel (Confederate Privateer, see William Aiken)
   From Charleston—The St. Lawrence Sinks a Privateer (1861)

Philippine (Schooner)
   Missing Vessel Safe (1931)
   News From the Ocean and Water Front (1900)

Police & Policing
   Still Undecided About Police Auto (IN,  1922)

Prohibition
   Medical Student Held in Rum Case (1923)
   Moonshine in Arizona (1921)
   Will Seek to Stop Use Norwegian Flag by Rum Ships (1924)

Pseudoscience
   Thought Earth Hollow (1923)