No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 20, 2013
In September 1896, Popular Science Monthly published this picture—a psychic photograph generated by seven men thinking about a cat. It was such an obvious hoax that the editors thought their rea... [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!

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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Here’s the newest addition to my, “Ladies &...

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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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2001: An adult actress stoned to death in Evin prison

(From the May 22, 2001 Eugene Register-Guard, which is also the source of the quoted text below.) Sex workers face a struggle worldwide for labor rights and human rights. At the extreme end of the cri...
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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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