Recent Articles

Celebrity Wedding: Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz
(Photoplay Magazine, 1941)

Attached you will find a small illustrated notice from the shameless gossips at PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE reporting on the surprise 1941 wedding that took place between Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz.

PHOTOPLAY acknowledged the nay-saying Hollywood romance prophets who predicted doom for the union of these two Rhumba Stars – but in the end, they were right: Lucy and Desi divorced in May of 1961.

A Humane Act at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle
(Literary Digest, 1913)

During the 1913 Battle of Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary commemoration, a surviving member of Picket’s Charge encountered the Federal soldier who had saved his life at the Bloody Angle; this is the moving story of their encounter.

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