No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 18, 2013
A Panoramic View of the Leading Athletic Entertainments and Incidents of the Week. 1.—The Panic on the Grand Stand, Sheepshead Bay. 2.—Defending the Umpire. 3. – Duncan C. Ross ... [More]

Mrs. Sarah Rhodes.

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders: Mrs. Sarah Rhodes. “This remarkable woman, who sports a moustache, is accused of murdering Farmer Blizzard, a married man, and who seemed to be i...
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BERTHA HEYMAN
alias: BIG BERTHA
CONFIDENCE QUEEN
May 17, 2013
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Foretell Your Future!

Girl, roses, and butterfly in a Brooklyn garden

There’s an enormous amount of beauty in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, opened in 1910. But the bronze statue of a girl holding roses in her right hand and a butterfly sundial in her left is an esp...
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1891: Benjamin Harrison spares the Navassa rioters

On this date in 1891, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison settled a death penalty case from the remote Navassa Island by granting a commutation. Back in the 19th century, islands stacked high with guano ...
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Soapy Smith and the Brackett Road

"The Light of Other Days" A gang of thimble riggers working a dupe "Thimble rigging" is the shell and pea game, with thimbles (Credit: friend Tom Frank) (Click image to enlarge) uthor Cat...
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wahnwitzig: Photographer: Leopold Adler - Kronstadt (Brassó)...

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She is So Very Gifted!

Gifted By ANNE CAMPBELL She is so very gifted! If she should write a song, The lyric would be garbled, The melody all wrong. But singing to her baby She builds a world of peace Where sorrow does not e...
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"We follow vice and folly where a police officer dare not show his head, as the small, but intrepid weasel pursues vermin in paths which the licensed cat or dog cannot enter."

 The Sunday Flash 1841

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