The young man lived in a rental house a few doors from the home where H.W.* grew up in southern Brazil. A few years later, the young man moved out, a husband and wife moved in.

I can easily remember taking my Saturday night bath in a wash tub in front of the kitchen stove when I was a young lad out on the farm. That was well before we had indoor plumbing.

The children looked out of place in the night. Craig Besand walked down the street toward his flat in Norwich, England, when two figures approached him.

We were doing some house cleaning and moving things around in The Examiner press room the other night. Something we have to do occasionally, because if we don’t, things get pretty grimy around the edges.

The first motorcycle was invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler, a German engineer. He attached a four-stroke piston engine to a wooden bicycle frame. For the next few years motorcycles remained largely experimental.

When the word got out in 1825 that the U.S. Government was about to sign a final treaty with the Osage Indians that would open up this part of Missouri for settlement to the Americans, the pioneers came immediately. In fact, as the treaty was being signed, there were about 50 families waiting at the abandoned Fort Osage for permission to move into Jackson County.

Poring through the stacks of memories her home’s previous occupants left behind, Sammy Torres unmasked the spirit of a young Hispanic girl that sits on her son’s bed.

When Sammy Torres and her family moved into the mobile home in 2004, they knew something was wrong. The former tenants had left in a hurry.

On June 7, 1874, the St. Louis Dispatch carried a story that Jesse James had gotten married back on April 24. He married Zerelda Amanda Mimms in a private ceremony in Kearney, Mo. The dispatch apparently got the information straight from the horse’s mouth, as the couple waited in Galveston, Texas, for a boat that would take them to Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Fred Doster arrived in Independence more than 60 years ago, in the fall of 1947, from Manhattan, N.Y. Fred was an actor with the stage name of “Charlie Dorchester.”