Bygone Stories From a Kentucky Newspaper
March - June 1885
Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour, History
| Author: | Karen Ballentine | ISBN: | 1230002234274 |
| Publisher: | Karen Ballentine | Publication: | March 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Karen Ballentine |
| ISBN: | 1230002234274 |
| Publisher: | Karen Ballentine |
| Publication: | March 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Volume 2: MARCH THROUGH JUNE. In this volume you will read about:
• A widower who married the woman his son was engaged to because the son kept putting off the wedding.
• A man who had his telephone taken away because of his swearing during a phone call.
• The dangers of smoking.
• Prisoners counterfeiting money.
• A camera in a bank used to catch bank robbers.
• A murder committed by an 8 year old girl.
• A deadly feud in Rowan County, Kentucky.
• That not all fools are dead in Creston, Iowa.
• Cancellations of the sessions of the Court of Appeals because all the judges had sprained ankles.
• One hundred and fifty people poisoned at a picnic by ice cream.
• Ladies addicted to funerals, sometimes attending several a day.
• The theft of 600 indictments from a courthouse.
• Texas Tree Jewelry. [Lynchings, a lot of them.]
• A man sentenced to twenty lashes at a public whipping post for beating his wife.
• The arrival of the Statue of Liberty in New York. It arrived safely packed in 200 cases.
Volume 2: MARCH THROUGH JUNE. In this volume you will read about:
• A widower who married the woman his son was engaged to because the son kept putting off the wedding.
• A man who had his telephone taken away because of his swearing during a phone call.
• The dangers of smoking.
• Prisoners counterfeiting money.
• A camera in a bank used to catch bank robbers.
• A murder committed by an 8 year old girl.
• A deadly feud in Rowan County, Kentucky.
• That not all fools are dead in Creston, Iowa.
• Cancellations of the sessions of the Court of Appeals because all the judges had sprained ankles.
• One hundred and fifty people poisoned at a picnic by ice cream.
• Ladies addicted to funerals, sometimes attending several a day.
• The theft of 600 indictments from a courthouse.
• Texas Tree Jewelry. [Lynchings, a lot of them.]
• A man sentenced to twenty lashes at a public whipping post for beating his wife.
• The arrival of the Statue of Liberty in New York. It arrived safely packed in 200 cases.
