No. 106
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
September 11, 2012

A One Legged Baseball Club.

September 11, 2012
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Tag: Clergy

Turning the Tables.

A Parson returns unexpectedly and detects the Deacon escaping from his apartment.

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Dangerous Characters.

No Tramps nor Parsons Admitted.

6/29/2021

Courtship from a Tree.

Young and Ardent Bob Toppin, a Newark, N. J., youth, does some tall climbing in order to meet his sweetheart, pretty Miss Hobbie, a parson’s daughter.

3/13/2017

The Pastor Kissed Her.

That is the allegation made against Dominie Hall of the Methodist Church at Livermore, Ky., by Miss May.

11/28/2016

Another Amorous Parson.

Westchester County is all agog over the case of the Rev. Mr. White, accused of violently assaulting the sister-in-law of a brother clergyman. We illustrate the scene.

10/6/2015

The Minister Was Coltish.

The Rev. G. W. Kling, pastor of the Crawford M. E. Church at West Marietta, O., is in a peck of trouble.

6/8/2015

A Minister’s Scrape.

7/21/2014

She Had a High Old Time.

8/13/2013

Gold from Seawater!

In 1898, the Reverend Prescott F. Jernegan founded the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company to extract gold from seawater. When the gold ran out, so did Rev. Jernegan, taking the company’s capital.

7/16/2013
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A One Legged Baseball Club.

A One Legged Ball Club

Pittsburg, Pa., has a unique organization known as the Artificial Leg Baseball Club. [more]The club is composed entirely of members who wear artificial legs, and it has issued a challenged to play any one legged club in America for any amount of money. W. P. Chambers of No. 909 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg is the manager.

 

From The National Police Gazette, October 7, 1893