No. 508
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
January 28, 2021
A Newspaper Man’s Plight
Denver Col., October 1892 – Correspondent Jake Hirsh cowhided by indignant Lizzie Gonzales, an actress, in Denver.
May 22, 2011
alias: HARVEY, MOLLIE HOEY
Via Newspapers.comSpectral “Woman in Black” stories are a dime a dozen in the world of The Weird, but the following is more unusual than most. “The Rock Island Argus,” January 2, 1893:The story as Irving tells it of the headless horseman who spread consternation through Sleepy Hollow is well known by readers. Now, here is a story of a mysterious Woman in Black who is exciting as much fear among
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Strange Company - 1/27/2021
Surprising news broke tonight of the listing for sale of the popular bed & breakfast, open as a business for …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 1/10/2021
Leave it to Everett Shinn, social realist Ashcan artist, to paint an eviction scene that gives viewers much more than just a portrait of a family thrown out of their tenement and onto the street. In “Eviction (Lower East Side),” we see piles of rickety belongings, men carrying a trunk and what looks like a […]
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Ephemeral New York - 1/24/2021
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
Read the whole story of Alice Brown's mysterious, 1897 murder in Boston here: 15 Corning Street.Illustrations from Boston Post, November 6, 1897.
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Murder By Gaslight - 1/23/2021
Ripley's Believe It Or NotUnknown newspaper1937Jeff Smith collection
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OAPY SMITH'S SKULL
STRANGE MONUMENT TO "SOAPY" SMITH
Famous Bad Man of the Klondike, Fashioned from natural rock 25 feet high.
On Moore's old wharf, alongside the bay and the railroad dock in Skagway, Alaska is an impressive wall of solid granite that is home to one of the most unique art
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 1/14/2021
[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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Denver Col., October 1892 – Correspondent Jake Hirsh cowhided by indignant Lizzie Gonzales, an actress, in Denver. 
