No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 21, 2013
"The St. Patrick's Day Parade." Puck, 5 Mar. 1884: 39.    

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!

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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The Young Swell

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Night descends on the Empire State Building

A different New York comes alive at night than the daytime city, one with its own magic and enchantment. Whoever wrote the caption on the back of this 1940s postcard understood this well. “Spect...
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1940: Cayetano Redondo, former mayor of Madrid

On this date in 1940, Cayetano Redondo was shot at Madrid’s largest cemetery. Cayetano Redondo (English Wikipedia page | Spanish | Esperanto), a former journalist and editor, was the s...
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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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