Crack Skull and Sailors Amid Wild Tales and Tragedies
A collage of dramatic verse and gossip from the Indianapolis Herald includes Crack Skull and after 3 by W. Riley, maritime fantasy with grotesque imagery, then a hotel anecdote from San Francisco, followed by a stream of local obituaries and crime notes from Indiana towns. It relays deaths by suicide, hangings, and jailhouse violence, plus oddities like a white ground squirrel and a pun about matrimony, all set in a brisk, scattershot newspaper voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Dresher
Mertztown
East Penn
The Lazy Fisherman in Manayunk and a Busking Beggar
A Germantown Telegraph item describes the laziest fisherman in the United States living in Manayunk who trains a dog to haul bass from pools below a dam and signals the master with a bark. It also recounts a beggar with an accordion who asks for alms and jokes with a householder about his music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germantown
United States
Manayunk
Miscellany of pointed quips and social notes from era
A collage of sharp quips and curious facts from era newspapers. Insults toward Hayes Devens and Key are contrasted with social observations about tramps in Iowa, sugar politics in Louisiana, a windless Texas well, and casualty tallies in England. Also notes on aging in Buncombe, Chinese hair exports, Chief Joseph vs cheap labor, and marriage drinking myths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayes
Devens
Key
New England
Joseph
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Great Bargains
Pocat Dadpainc Tm Boots & Shoes
OLA
Serts Furnisauve Goons
S & Boys
TIĪ
W. Riley
Larry O'Hannegan
Indianapolis Herald
San Francisco
Texas
Jim
Billy Coolbaugh
Farwell
Indiana
Morton
Brazil
Corydon
W. H L
Evansville
Iva Morgan
Orleans
Shuey
Lewman Walker
Fort Wayne
Henry Hammel
Cambridge
Covington
Mark Morton
Bill Gerard
Col
Frank Shafter
Muncie
Wr. Jones
John Simon
Simeon
Auburn
England
Rocky Mountain Guide
Illinois
Pike’s Peak
Virginia City Chronicle
Morris
Wyoming Territory
Courier-Journal
Monsieur
Madame
Iowa
Richmond
Wal
Maquirer
The
Indianapolis Journal
Louisiana
Hell
John
She
Wise County
Buncombe
North Carolina
Wheeling
W. V
Columbus
EO. Carruthers
F. & All
1.C.C. F. Ke
John Bradford
Carruthers
Grocer
Harry Rockafield
J. C. May
Holesale
Indianapolis, Ind
Lowell Flour and Hawpatch Hominy Mills
Owell Mills
Hawpatch Hominy Mills
Lowell
Caff & Thomas
Smith
Rialto
Walnut Street
Washington
Jackson Streets
Ind
Dan Smith
H. Daily
J. F. Wright
Chas. McCalla
Geo. Dahn
Thos. May
Robert Hendricks
Joseph Mounts
Chas. Kis
Ling
D. Stein
Samuel Gaddis
William Gaddis
James A. Smith
Columbus Indiana
Schwartzkopf & Habig, Proprietors
Washington Street
Columbus, Ind
Cincinnati
Noorby
Coal and Coke
Pittsburg
F. Vogel
Trade Palace
J. I. Johnson
Donner
P, Emig & CO
George Kitzinger
East Side
Washington St
Columbus, MD
Crump’s
Bain
Dr. Wright
Harper's and Scribner's
Leslie's
Gody’s
Peterson’s
Eaton
Kim Slater
Franklin Herald
Prentice
Finney
Columbus Democrat
Madison Star
Elm Tree Grove
New York Commercial Advertiser
John Chamberlain
Jim Blaine
London
Lyme
Globe Democrat
Dayton Democrat
Gilmore
Europe
Poismith
Kentucky
Newton Smith
Wisconsin
Oxford University Church
Gail Hamilton
Carl Schurz
James Street
Home Sentinel
New York Tribune
West EP
J. 1. Gaylord & Co
Chicago
Sawmple Watch
Free To &Co
Columbus, Indiana
Frank Wilt
Frank Pancake
OLD McEwen
Culley
Nashville
Brown County
Court House
Eugene Culley
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