The Old Gazette is a mobile game that hides genuine American newspaper articles from the 1800s and early 1900s in the world around you. Every story is drawn from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America archive — millions of pages of crime reports, ship arrivals, scientific oddities, town scandals, and quiet acts of heroism, written by reporters who would never know their words would be read a century later.

These stories deserve a second look. Some are tragic, some absurd, a few wrong about science, and one or two might genuinely change how you feel about the year 1888. The Old Gazette puts them back into circulation — one walk at a time.