No. 462
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
February 21, 2020
Why She Pummeled Him.
A Cincinnati woman gets up a lively street sensation by vigorously thrashing a man on the sidewalk,
April 17, 2017
alias: CURLY HARRIS, JAMES MARTIN
BURGLAR, HOTEL SNEAK, MURDERER
"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn
This week's Link Dump is hosted by the only two creatures with nine lives.
Yes, we're still asking: What the hell is the Voynich Manuscript?
What the hell happened in the skies over Nuremberg in 1561?
What the hell is going on with Betelgeuse?
What the hell sank the "Hunley?"
Who the hell killed Marilyn Sheppard?
Watch out for the
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Strange Company - 2/21/2020
"Denver's Oldest Bar"
matchbook cover
outside cover - A
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new addition to my collection
A matchbook cover from "Denver’s Oldest Bar" is a new acquisition to my private Soapy Smith collection. Though it is a "modern" item from the 1960s-70s, it has a direct link to Soapy Smith. "Denver’s Oldest Bar" was once controlled by Soapy, under the name, "Tivoli Club,
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 2/7/2020
Last year on this date, nine men purportedly involved in the 2015 car bomb assassination of Egyptian prosecutor general Hisham Barakat were hanged at a Cairo prison. Barakat had prosecuted thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of the elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who was deposed in a military coup in 2013. “A monument […]
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Executed Today - 2/20/2020
Beginning on January 1st, W&W will begin featuring fascinating short clippings from the Fall River papers and other newspapers from …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 12/29/2019
Nellie C. Bailey.
William Dodson led a drive of 2300 head of sheep from Kansas through Indian Territory to their new home in Texas in October 1883. A mile behind them the owner of the new ranch, a widower named Clement Bothemly, and his sister Bertha traveled in a wagon outfitted with bedrooms. Pulled by two yoke of oxen, the wagon was so large that observers compared it to a railroad car.
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Murder By Gaslight - 2/22/2020
Wherever rich New Yorkers built their homes in the 19th century, they also built private stables for their expensive horses and carriages—with upstairs living quarters for a coachman or groom. So when Upper Fifth Avenue along Central Park became the city’s new Millionaire Mile during the Gilded Age, certain Upper East Side blocks to the […]
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Ephemeral New York - 2/17/2020
[Editor’s note: Guest writer, Peter Dickson, lives in West Sussex, England and has been working with microfilm copies of The Duncan Campbell Papers from the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The following are some of his analyses of what he has discovered from reading these papers. Dickson has contributed many transcriptions to the Jamaica Family […]
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