Bygone Stories From a Kentucky Newspaper
July - December 1885
Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour, History, Americas
| Author: | Karen Ballentine | ISBN: | 1230002234281 |
| Publisher: | Karen Ballentine | Publication: | March 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Karen Ballentine |
| ISBN: | 1230002234281 |
| Publisher: | Karen Ballentine |
| Publication: | March 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Volume 3: JULY THROUGH DECEMBER - In this volume you will read about:
• A recipe for 300 gallons of burgoo.
• The death and funeral of General Grant.
• The indictment of the Sheriff of Rowan County for murder.
• The filthy hog-wallow on Second Street in front of Ballenger’s jewelry store in Maysville.
• The pies in Philadelphia, 10,000 of them a day!
• A new beverage called limeade.
• The phrenological delineation of character.
• That damphools are not all dead in Mankato, Minnesota.
• The 500 moonshiners on trial in Nashville.
• The $100,000 tomb of William H. Vanderbilt.
• The cure for hydrophobia by Dr. Louis Pasteur.
• President Cleveland’s refusal to kiss babies.
• The strange story of the weird hunter in the Kentucky hills.
• The sudden death of Vice-President Hendricks leaving the US without a vice-president for the very first time.
• The reference of Rev. Sam Jones, before an immense congregation, to Governor Marmaduke as, “An old swill tub.”
• A rumor that John Wilkes Booth was still alive.
• The disastrous effects of whiskey on the memory. Twenty-four witnesses could not, to save their lives, remember where they had procured whiskey the previous day.
Volume 3: JULY THROUGH DECEMBER - In this volume you will read about:
• A recipe for 300 gallons of burgoo.
• The death and funeral of General Grant.
• The indictment of the Sheriff of Rowan County for murder.
• The filthy hog-wallow on Second Street in front of Ballenger’s jewelry store in Maysville.
• The pies in Philadelphia, 10,000 of them a day!
• A new beverage called limeade.
• The phrenological delineation of character.
• That damphools are not all dead in Mankato, Minnesota.
• The 500 moonshiners on trial in Nashville.
• The $100,000 tomb of William H. Vanderbilt.
• The cure for hydrophobia by Dr. Louis Pasteur.
• President Cleveland’s refusal to kiss babies.
• The strange story of the weird hunter in the Kentucky hills.
• The sudden death of Vice-President Hendricks leaving the US without a vice-president for the very first time.
• The reference of Rev. Sam Jones, before an immense congregation, to Governor Marmaduke as, “An old swill tub.”
• A rumor that John Wilkes Booth was still alive.
• The disastrous effects of whiskey on the memory. Twenty-four witnesses could not, to save their lives, remember where they had procured whiskey the previous day.
