No. 888
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
November 11, 2026

Startling Experiences in Advertising for a Room-mate

Some of the applicants who presented themselves.
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November 11, 2026
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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
THOS MATTHEWS
alias: TOMMY MATTHEWS
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Weekend Link Dump

 Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where the Strange Company HQ staffers wish you a lucky Friday the 13th!Watch out for the Beast of Bladenboro!J.R.R. Tolkien and Catholicism.A book for a 15th century prince.A tale of love and revenge in medieval Cyprus.The enigma of Saki, one of my favorite short-story writers.Some object is speeding towards our planet, and scientists have no idea what it
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Strange Company - 11/13/2026

Convicts to Maryland, 1773 by Peter Dickson

  [Editor’s note: Guest writer, Peter Dickson, lives in West Sussex, England and has been working with microfilm copies of The Duncan Campbell Papers from the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The following are some of his analyses of what he has discovered from reading these papers. Dickson has contributed many transcriptions to the Jamaica […]
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Early American Crime - 2/7/2019
Amen.

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

"As his son I am proud of hisefforts to succeed in life"Jefferson Randolph Smith IIIArtifact #93-2Jeff Smith collection(Click image to enlarge) oapy's son hires a legal firm to stop the defamation of his father's name. At age 30, Jefferson Randolph Smith III, Soapy and Mary's oldest son, was protecting his father's legacy and his mother's reputation from "libel" and scandal. He was also
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 10/13/2025

Sarah and Charles Littles.

 (The Falls Field Tragedy! Rochester, 1858.)In December 1857 the marriage of Charles and Sarah Littles was essentially over. Sarah had moved out because of Charles’s heavy drinking and multiple affairs. Charles was extremely jealous and in spite of his extramarital love life, he wanted Sarah back. He continued to harass her, angering her brother, Ira Stout.That December, the body of Charles
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Murder By Gaslight - 11/14/2026
On the Russians.

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

Youth With Executioner by Nuremberg native Albrecht Dürer … although it’s dated to 1493, which was during a period of several years when Dürer worked abroad. November 13 [1617]. Burnt alive here a miller of Manberna, who however was lately … Continue reading →
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Executed Today - 11/13/2020
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Startling Experiences in Advertising for a Room-mate

roommate-wanted

1-In want of a "Congenial companions." 2-The first applicant. 3-Open for an engagement. 4-Too many incumbrances.
5- Horrors, a man! 6-"Was yez wanting somebody to slape with ye?" 7-The school-ma'am and her "chum."

A New York schoo1-teacher's startling experiences in advertising for a room-mate - some of the applicants who presented themselves.

Illustrated Police News, January 18, 1879.

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