No. 830
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
September 09, 2025

The Billiard Room of the Grand Union Hotel,

at Saratoga, N.Y.
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September 9, 2025
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Threatening an Umpire.

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The Tall Man

There is something about the transitory, enigmatic nature of the following little story that charms me.  I always enjoy those moments when The Weird suddenly appears, slaps you in the face with a dead fish, and just as quickly and inexplicably vanishes for good.Our tale takes place on a pleasant English Sunday, May 5, 1924.  A young woman named Betty Bone went on the bicycle ride of 15
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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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Song of the St. George Murder.

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On the Russians.

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

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The Billiard Room of the Grand Union Hotel,

Saratoga-Billiards at Saratoga, N.Y.

This cut gives an interior view of a billiard-room, fitted up in the new portion of the Grand Union just completed by Mr. A. T. Steward. It contains fifteen tables of the latest and most approved pattern, and is fitted up in a truly elegant and tasty manner. While large, as it actually is, the architect has so arranged the room as to give the effect of even greater spaciousness.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 24, 1875.

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