France and Prussia are on the brink of war! Southern plantations are importing Chinese laborers to work in their cotton and sugar fields! A German woman thinks her husband is cheating on her with that hussy Katrina von Trump!

This dramatic episode of Past & Printed (and our first from the 1870s) takes us to the ardently abolitionist, fervently religious, and surprisingly interesting town of Warren, Ohio and their newspaper, the Western Reserve Chronicle.

This was actually a more interesting read than I originally expected, and took me (and by extension you, dear listener) down a couple or three rabbit holes!

Recent developments from the Great War (both domestic and international), journalists are warned in Henry Thaw's sanity hearings, and local baseball teams have one helluva weekend!

All this news and more, as we dive into a paper that's pretty close to home, the Monday, June 28, 1915 edition of the Perth Amboy Evening News from Perth Amboy, New Jersey!

The Prime Minister is on his deathbed, Members of Parliament are being investigated for corruption, and the almost perpetual trade conflicts with the Americans continue! Political crises abound, as we head back up north, looking at the Saturday, May 30, 1891 edition of The Daily Gleaner from Fredericton, New Brunswick!