No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 19, 2013
Buffalo, New York, November, 1893 - Two Little Gem Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., Soubrettes have a scrap on account of a man.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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Harper’s Bazar, 1897. Gurl.

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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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399 BCE: Socrates

It might have been May 19, 399 BCE* — and if not, we’re in the neighborhood — that the original gadfly** philosopher Socrates obeyed a death sentence from his native Athens and quaff...
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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...
More...YesterYear Once More


"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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