Antique Clippings

Antique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.

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Showing posts with label execution. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Russian Fairy Tales

1900 A book of fairy tales was the cause of the expulsion and consequent ruin of 175 persons at Poltova. A pupil at one of the state schools...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Ghost of the Tower

1901 Superstitious people in merry England are busy prophesying many gloomy events because it has been declared that the ghost of Mary, quee...

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Wretched Men Meet Their Fate at Hanging, Last Words Given

Pennsylvania, 1877 MURDER EXPIATED. Eleven[*] Men Appease the Offended Law How the Wretched Men Met Their Fate — Last Words on the Scaffold....

Saturday, May 5, 2007

The Burning of Joan of Arc (poetry)

1874 The Burning of Joan of Arc They've bound her to the iron stake, That fierce and haughty soul! Oh! mistress of the hearts of France,...

Friday, May 4, 2007

A White Bean or Death — Struggling for Texas Independence

1878 A White Bean or Death A Story of the Texas Struggle for Independence — Shot by the Mexican Authorities — Drawing the Lot for Life or De...

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