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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Also, see the Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries, a searchable index to newspapers published in the United States since 1690, which helps researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.
"No Need for Rats or Puffs." April 3, 1910. The Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), Image 49. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
From time to time, resoundingly peculiar stories sprout up in the newspapers, spanning from a man's heart shifting positions to a woman's inability to get off the subway train. To this day, these anomalies have received no veritable explanation. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| July 11, 1899 | Two chickens are born from the same egg. |
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| September 9, 1900 | A man's heart changes its position inside his chest. |
| January 20, 1907 | A young woman suffers from an inability to get off the L train at the particular station she desires. |
| April 3, 1910 | The prize winning woman has hair seventy-seven inches long. |
