This week’s #FridayFind is an… itemized list of all the murders that occurred in St. Louis in the year 1880?

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 27 people were killed in that one year. While murders still make the news today, “A Bloody Record of Red-Handed Murder for 1880” probably won’t be making the headlines anytime soon. And we call modern media sensationalist!

Need help sifting through all the elaboration that comes with old newspapers? Email us at emma@backlog-archivists.com!