Bygone Stories From a Kentucky Newspaper

March - June 1885

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.