No. 402
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
January 01, 2018

Afloat on a Cake of Ice.

Perilous Situation of a Skating Party on the Ohio River Near Zanesville, Ohio.
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Tag: New Orleans

She Whipped the Dude.

Young man who guyed performers in a New Orleans theatre was severely corrected.

10/29/2023

Pretty Stars for the Southern Dives.

Fifteen charming chippies make Rome howl while voyaging to New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Demi-Monde Excursion.

Members of the New Orleans Demi-Monde Enjoying an Excursion to the Suburbs of the Southern Metropolis.

5/16/2016

Torturing a Lover.

6/26/2012

Voodoo Queen Marie

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

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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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Daniel, Teresa, and Phillip.

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On the Russians.

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

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Afloat on a Cake of Ice.

Afloat on a Cake of Ice

Perilous Situation of a Skating Party on the Ohio River Near Zanesville, Ohio.

A party of skaters on the Ohio river, near Zanesville, O., recently met with a perilous adventure. By some means which they cannot explain the ice upon which they were skating became detached from the shore and before they were aware of it they were afloat upon the broad bosom of the river and rapidly going along with the current. They were fortunately rescued, but with some difficulty, Indeed, their escape from certain death is considered miraculous.

Weekly Varieties, February 27,1887.

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