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[Hurricane Jack]

Hot tequila?

Black pepper & peppercorns.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The original food trucks. Ross @RossRYoung note Young’s Hats umbrellas, early 1900’s.

 

[DiamondJimLA]

Fun day at a hanging.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Fun day at a hanging. View attachment 555016

The last hanging in the small town where I’m from was after trial in April 1896. They charged admission to enter inside the plank stockade. You could also buy a picture postcard. Original postcards still turn up from time to time.

 

[Woodtroll]

The last hanging in the small town where I’m from was after trial in April 1896. They charged admission to enter inside the plank stockade. You could also buy a picture postcard. Original postcards still turn up from time to time.

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That's one fellow that deserved hanging!
https://www.maryloumontgomery.com/s...99s-horror-over-meeks-e2-80-99-family-murders

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That's one fellow that deserved hanging!
https://www.maryloumontgomery.com/s...99s-horror-over-meeks-e2-80-99-family-murders

Thanks for the link, Reagan. The county history books have a pretty accurate telling of the facts. I’ll add a couple of interesting things from them or from my grandfather told to him when he was a kid.

While waiting for their sentence to be carried out the Taylor Bros managed to get out of their cell. The jailhouse is a two-story (still stands today). They found a canvas fire hose to aid them in their escape, first breaking in to the attic & from there out on to the tin roof. Tying the fire hose around the chimney, George Taylor was the first to climb down. Hearing the commotion the Sheriff rushed outside in time to catch William Taylor still coming down, & to see George Taylor escape in a buggy.

George Taylor was never seen again. When the Spanish-American War broke out in Cuba in 1898 the rumor was that George enlisted & served in the first war fought off shore.

For some yrs after the turn of the century there was a hermit seldom seen but living on a small island in the Mississippi River down stream from St. Louis. At some point the hermit just seemed to disappear (most likely died) & was forgotten about. During the cleanup after the flood of 1951 old skeletal remains thought to be those of the hermit were found, & speculation at the time was that the hermit may have been George Taylor.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Tintype of a soldier wounded in the summer of 1864.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Ferry crossing 1904 – 1909.

 

[BobHufford]

Enjoying the fruits of their labor. Young’s Orchard, Springfield, Missouri (circa 1953).

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Farmers market (ca 1900).

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Hot pretzel vendor, NYC, (ca 1900).

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Unknown

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Cabinet photo unidentified cowboy in studio chair Fargo, Dakota Territory, (ca. 1890)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Victorian era professional mourners & funeral mutes.

 

[carouselvic]

Three year old Nelson Lloyd Jr., ties sister Lisa's Easter bonnet. Chicago 1963

 

[BobHufford]

THE B.A.N.Z. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley. 1931.

 

[carouselvic]

Mabel, May, and Myrtle Buckley were born in the saddle and well equipped to run their parents' ranch near Terry, Montana.
The daughters of Franklin and Susanna Buckley, Elinor May was born in 1889; Myrtle in 1891; and Mable Pearl in 1893

 

[BobHufford]

A heartfelt salute to all U.S. Veterans on this (observed) Veterans Day in the USA.

An effigy of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm is carried aloft by crowds during an impromptu parade on Armistice Day in New York, Nov. 11, 1918

 

[BobHufford]

Thanks to all that serve.