On this decidedly slow news day during which everyone's running out the clock before bidding 2008 good riddance, perhaps this offering from the Wayback Machine's just the ticket: a look at the front page of the Fort Worth Daily Gazette from December 30, 1883. I stumbled across it early this morning while looking for something else on the Library of Congress's Web site, where, as it turns out, the LOC and the National Endowment for the Humanities are in the process of Chronicling America, or gath
