How Gruesome Murders Activated the Strangest Left-Wing Campaign of All Time Mr. Segerdal resides in Glendale, California, where he is a writer. In the late nineteenth century, despite fabulous wealth, gracious living, and an industrial revolution that had reached the far corners of her empire, Britain was also an island of social unrest. Working-class discontent with poverty and disease was fuelin... »
WIVES OF WILSON LINE OFFICERS ARRIVE SAFE. NEWS OF DETAINED CREWS. Definite news of two Wilson liners and their captains and crews, detained in Hamburg now for seven weeks, has been brought to Hull by the wives of two of the officers, who have pluckily succeeded in getting through to their homes at Hull. The two ladies are Mrs Duncan, wife of the second officer of the liner York. They bring the ne... »
Robert Ford of Hull, born 1866 and eight years old, nursed an overriding ambition. Steam. His father, another Robert, sailing his own brig coastwise out of the Humber, argued that steam was a passing fad. “Stands to reason, son. Who’d charter a vessel half full of mucky coal before a ton of cargo can be put aboard? The cost of coal alone would send freight charges sky high. Owners will... »