No. 518
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
April 16, 2021
They Are a Bad Lot.
The frightful picture of crime and debauchery which has given notoriety to Mary Jane Cawley’s backwo
July 27, 2015
alias: BANJO PETE, BIG PETE, LUTHER, PETER EMMERSON
"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan MandijnIt's time for this week's Link Dump!Everyone dance!The mysterious murder of Rose Ambler.The life of the first King of England.The working dogs of medieval Europe.A Civil War reunion story.The Titanic's funeral ship.How apothecary shops became globalized.Attending an Early Modern barbecue.The legends surrounding a vanished ship.How Margaret Dickson
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Strange Company - 4/16/2021
Sometimes it’s hard to think of Lizzie Borden as just another little girl, innocent, unknown, just a school girl with her whole life ahead of her. Here she is posing happily, with no clue what the future would bring, and never giving a thought to being remembered a century later.
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 4/2/2021
SOAPY SMITH ARRESTEDSpokesman ReviewJuly 29, 1897(Click image to enlarge)
e objected to the word vagrancy."
When the Excelsior docked in San Francisco on July 14, 1897, excitement spread quickly when each passenger disembarked with a reported average of from $30,000 to $90,000 in gold. The same occurred on July 17 when the Portland docked in Seattle. I have always felt that Soapy Smith was
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 4/13/2021
Youth With Executioner by Nuremberg native Albrecht Dürer … although it’s dated to 1493, which was during a period of several years when Dürer worked abroad. November 13 [1617]. Burnt alive here a miller of Manberna, who however was lately engaged as a carrier of wine, because he and his brother, with the help of […]
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Executed Today - 11/13/2020
Rose Ambler said goodnight to her fiancé at the Raven Stream Bridge, the night of September 2, 1883, and started walking home alone as she usually did. She was never again seen alive. Her body was found the next day, beaten and stabbed, and the perpetrator was never captured. Read the full story here:The Raven Stream Crime.
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Murder By Gaslight - 4/10/2021
In 1960, East Side resident Louis Mattia opened his antique light fixtures business in a small tenement space at 980 Second Avenue. Back then, Manhattan’s design district—in the East 50s along First and Second Avenues—was at its peak. Showrooms and decorative arts concerns still operate here. But the neighborhood doesn’t resemble the one Mattia likely […]
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Ephemeral New York - 4/12/2021
[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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