Early last week, a friend of mine asked me to assist him in taking some books to a used book store.
Overall, they were some really, really nice old books...old books that even then had gone though various reprints.
I’m talking about you could see the ‘’cut pages’’ and feel the letters on the pages type of books...largely reprints, not at all rare, but good stuff.
So...out of one of the books, a 4-page newspaper falls out.
The newspaper (called The Ironbridge Chronicle and dated ‘’Summer 1895”) was not at all brittle, as I might have expected.
And so, I opened up the newspaper, very carefully, somewhat eager to read its contents and what should I see but a notice of the trial of Oscar Wilde...or ’’Ocar Wilde.’’
Now, of course, I have read a number of accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde but never an account of the Wilde trial as it was covered at that time.
A few other notices in the paper caught my eye including a blurb on the military degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the death of Louis Pasteur (a curious notice since September 28, 1895 was a Friday and not a Saturday as the paper reported, M. Pasteur was 72 and not 74, as TIC indicated and...this was in a summer issue?), the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough, a vegetarian conference in Birmingham, and a wonderfully titillating (at least to me) headline:
THE WORKHOUSE NURSE CHARGED WITH THEFT
...which sounds as if it could be some sort of dastardly Victorian crime that only Sherlock Holmes can solve...well, Sherlock wasn’t supposed to be alive in 1895…
As of this writing, I am aware that at least one of the issues of The Ironbridge Chronicle was reprinted in the 1980’s and I suspect that what I held in my hand and took pictures of was probably a facsimile as well. But it sure was awfully fun reading.
Today’s question: Tell us about something interesting...but not necessarily valuable that you found once upon a time.
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