No. 610
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
January 11, 2022

Comedian Punches Drummer.

Pete Baker thrashes H. J. Jenkins for trying to flirt with the actor’s daughter in Dayton, O.
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January 11, 2022
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Tag: Religion

Map of the Square and Stationary Earth.

Scripture that condemns the globe theory.

9/22/2020

Philanthropist or “Moral Leper?”

4/30/2013

The Advent of Spiritualism.

A simple schoolgirl prank spawned a new belief with millions of followers.

9/4/2012

Ararat: City of Refuge.

7/3/2012

Cursing In Church

Westfield, Ohio, October 23, 1887 - The Sudden Insanity of Rev J. R. Young. He uses profane language in a Sunday school at Westfield, Ohio.

12/20/2011

The Drunkard's Looking Glass

4/24/2011

Voodoo Queen Marie

For over forty years, beginning around 1830, Marie Laveau was the most powerful and most feared woman in New Orleans.

3/21/2011
JOSEPH GORMAN
alias: BROWN, CLIFFORD
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Weekend Link Dump

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Convicts to Maryland, 1773 by Peter Dickson

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Amen.

Artifact #93: Soapy's son, hires attorney to stop the slurring of his father's name.

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The Attleboro Sensation.

(Illustrated Police News, April 3, 1886.)Agnes Anastasia Long moved out of her parents’ home in East Attleboro, Massachusetts, in April 1882. With her many male suiters, she was considered the black sheep of the family. Her father had enough of her bad behavior and, according to the Boston Herald, “refused to permit her to darken the threshold of his humble home.”She took a job at Streeter
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On the Russians.

1617: A miller of Manberna, the hangman’s last

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Take a Chance? | She Knocked Him Out.

Comedian Punches Drummer.

Comedian Punches Drummer

Pete Baker thrashes H. J. Jenkins for trying to flirt with the actor’s daughter in Dayton, O.

A lively little set-to occurred the other day at the Cooper House, Dayton, Ohio, between Pet Baker, the well-known comedian, and H. T. Jenkins, a traveling agent for a Henderson, N. C, tobacco house. Jenkins had sought to get up a flirtation with Baker’s pretty daughter, who is well known on the stage as Viva Waters. The comedian encountered the drummer at the Cooper House and gave him a sound thrashing. Jenkins was knocked through a plate glass window.  A number of ladies added to the excitement by screaming and brandishing their parasols.

Reprinted from National Police Gazette, October 10, 1891.

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