The best known of circus pioneerP.T. Barnum‘s performers was Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), also known asGeneral Tom Thumb. Stratton weighed 9 lbs. 8 oz. at birth, a bouncing baby boy for the time, but stopped growing at six months. When Barnum discovered him at the age of ...
On select Thursdays we are highlighting the final resting place of someone related to the Lincoln assassination story. It may be the grave of someone whose name looms large in assassination literature, like a conspirator, or the grave of one of the many minor characters who crossed paths with ...
“What part of town might this room be in” Lincoln asked. Speed laughed out loud. “Why, sir, it’s right up these stairs”, he said pointing a long staircase that led above the store. Lincoln ran up the stairs, his long legs covering three steps at a time. Within a minute he r...
Here’s the story. In 1848, when Zachary Taylor won the Whig party nomination for president, Dan Rice, a famous clown whose attire inspired the image of Uncle Sam, invited Mr. Taylor to ride on the bandwagon that Dan Rice had. When the bandwagon arrived at the center of town, Dan ...
while), Ace Novelty, Feldman Print Shop (forJournalcarriers like me -- where we reported in on Saturday to settle for the week), Brown's Basket Grocery, draw a blank next though I have a vague recollection, then the left half of the two story building--how could I have forgotten ...
As William Parker verbally spared with Gorsuch and Kline, an unexpected sound arose from another of the house’s windows. Eliza Parker, sharing in her husband’s defiance, blew into a tin horn which emitted a loud trumpeting over the early morning countryside. The sound of a horn at an un...
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During an especially loud audience reaction, he entered the booth and shot Lincoln in the head. In the ensuing struggle with the other people in the box, he took out a knife and used it to free himself. He jumped onto the stage and yelled what was reported to be “Sic Semper Tyrannus...