Yesterday's Chip Paper

YCP Extra! Monkeys in court, spying chefs and DIY wine

With crime-stopping old ladies, fortune-telling dogs and professional walkers-on-heads, it’s all go in the first mini episode for 2019. Join your hosts, Jim and Violet, as they unravel the most surreal, ridiculous, and utter nonsense shorter stories from the historical newspaper archives. HEALTH AND SAFETY WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate the 1894 wine recipe described in this episode. If by some miracle it doesn’t kill you, you’ll wish it had. Yesterday's Chip Paper is a fortnightly(ish) podcast that looks at true stories found in historic newspapers from across the world. With hundreds of years of history at their fingertips, the only real limit to the stories that are told is that they have to have happened - or, at least, been reported. Whether it's true crime, mass hysteria or unusual reporting of famous events, it's always guaranteed to be downright bonkers. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter @paperpodcast, and on email at chippaperpodcast@gmail.com [chippaperpodcast@gmail.com] Archives used in this episode: British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/] Trove (National Library of Australia) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ [http://trove.nla.gov.au/] Newspapers.com Music: http://bensound.com

41. Under an Evil Star: The Wild Adventures of the Animal King

“Born and brought up through childhood with wild animals for playmates”, Frank C. Bostock was no ordinary child. From the age of 15, he became the “Boy Trainer” for his parents’ travelling menagerie, and went on to become a pioneers of showbiz across Britain - before monopolising the prime real estate of Dreamland in Coney Island with his epic displays. From fighting the world’s first boxing kangaroo to fishing one of his performing lions out of the sewers of Birmingham, Bostock’s career was a rollercoaster ride of success, disaster and death. Also this week - a debate on the merits of “ragging” at universities, and an Australian poem (-?). Yesterday's Chip Paper is the history podcast where your hosts, Jim and Violet, scour historical newspaper archives and unearth forgotten stories. From mad scientists to murderers, elaborate con artists to the elaborately conned, the only limit to what we can find is that someone, somewhere has to have written about it. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter @paperpodcast, and on email atchippaperpodcast@gmail.com [chippaperpodcast@gmail.com] Archives used in this episode: https://trove.nla.gov.au [https://trove.nla.gov.au/] https://newspapers.com [https://newspapers.com/] https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/] https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/] Other sources: https://archive.org/details/trainingofwildan00bostuoft/page/48 [https://archive.org/details/trainingofwildan00bostuoft/page/48] http://www.bostock.net/tree/bostgen/names/leek/frank1866.html [http://www.bostock.net/tree/bostgen/names/leek/frank1866.html] https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfca/projects/frankbostockbio [https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfca/projects/frankbostockbio] http://www.stereostokey.com/2009/02/frank-c-bostock-%E2%80%93-the-animal-king-of-abney-park-cemetery/ [http://www.stereostokey.com/2009/02/frank-c-bostock-%E2%80%93-the-animal-king-of-abney-park-cemetery/]

40. Genille Cave-Browne-Cave: The most interesting man who ever lived

In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper, join Violet and Jim and hear the story of the Bronco Bustin' Baronet, AKA Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, a man who did every possible job on earth, fought in every nearest convenient war and survived things that should have killed a moose. Plus, a letter about an organ plague and a poem describing the worst train journey in history. Yesterday's Chip Paper is a fortnightly(ish) podcast that looks at true stories found in historic newspapers from across the world. With hundreds of years of history at their fingertips, the only real limit to the stories that are told is that they have to have happened - or, at least, been reported. Whether it's true crime, mass hysteria or unusual reporting of famous events, it's always guaranteed to be downright bonkers. Archives used in this episode: https://trove.nla.gov.au [https://trove.nla.gov.au/] https://newspapers.com [https://newspapers.com/] https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/] http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/] https://newspapers.library.wales/ [https://newspapers.library.wales/] https://cdnc.ucr.edu [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/]

YCP Extra! Halloween II: More ghosts, more murder, and a haunted penny

With ghosts solving their own murders, ghosts murdering innocent victims, and other stories that involve neither ghosts nor murder, things are getting SPOOKY for this mini episode. Such as the lady haunted by a… penny? Join your hosts, Jim and Violet, as they prove that truth is truly stranger than fiction just in time for the haunting season. So buckle up, it’s time for a journey through the truly strange, bizarre and macabre this Halloween. Yesterday's Chip Paper is a fortnightly(ish) podcast that looks at true stories found in historic newspapers from across the world. With hundreds of years of history at their fingertips, the only real limit to the stories that are told is that they have to have happened - or, at least, been reported. Whether it's true crime, mass hysteria or unusual reporting of famous events, it's always guaranteed to be downright bonkers. Archives used in this episode: British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Trove (National Library of Australia) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ [http://trove.nla.gov.au/] Music: Intro/outro: Ghost Surf Rock by Loyalty Freak Music - thanks to the Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org [http://freemusicarchive.org] Other music (in order of appearance) Lurking Fear - thanks to https://www.purple-planet.com/ [https://www.purple-planet.com/] Night Terrors - thanks to https://www.purple-planet.com/ [https://www.purple-planet.com/] Ominous Pursuit by Eric Matyas - find him here https://soundimage.org [https://soundimage.org]

39. Bringing up the bodies: Murder in Panther Branch

This week, we check in with a man of many names who commits the most heinous of crime, then disappears...or does he? Plus, Jim reads a letter from a 130-year-old Facebook troll and possibly the best poem we've found to date. Yesterday's Chip Paper is the podcast where your hosts, Jim and Violet, scour historical newspaper archives and unearth forgotten stories. From mad scientists to murderers, elaborate con artists to the elaborately conned, the only limit to what we can find is that someone, somewhere has to have written about it. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter @paperpodcast, and on email at chippaperpodcast@gmail.com Archives used in this episode: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/] www.newspapers.com [http://www.newspapers.com/] Other sources: North Carolina Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, Desperadoes and Other Assorted and Sundry Characters! By Carole Marsh https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FHLG--BGQ-IC [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FHLG--BGQ-IC] Intro/Outro - The International Rag (Al Jolson & Sophie Tucker) All music comes with thanks to the Free Music Archive.