Knockout: the Strange Saga of Harry Lewis, Pugilist (1906)

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The wind howled on the evening of Thursday, November 15, 1906, but the temperature inside the Grand Rapids Auditorium was balmy as a standing-room-only crowd huddled together while they watched the main event: a scheduled ten rounds between two heavy-hitters … Continued

“I saw three men hung the day before yesterday…” (1864)

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  Private Joseph P. Robinson sat under an oak tree and wiped the sweat beads from  his forehead with the back of his sleeve. The humidity was unbearable. He laid out a  sheet of paper, dipped his fountain pen into … Continued

GRAND THEFT EQUINE! (1877)

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That ole black horse just ain’t where he’s supposed to be… …as Dan Powers, a livery stable operator of Jackson, Michigan, discovered after lending his horse and rig to a “Frank Cook,” who subsequently hoofed it out of town. Powers … Continued