Greg Hand

The theaters advertised them as “Tableaux Vivants.” If you weren't snooty enough to use French, you called them “Living Pictures.”

Wherever he was from, Walter came to Addyston to take a job at the Addyston Pipe & Steel Company, where he made and repaired ropes and cables. He had a reputation as a drinker, a hot head and a bully.

Hicks did die, a little after midnight, and Nick Delmore and Josie Bruce carried his body into the alley behind the saloon where police discovered it next morning.

Charles McMicken freed all his Louisiana slaves by a clause in his will, and offered $100 to any of them who agreed to emigrate to Africa. McMicken also provided funds to establish colleges “where white boys and girls might be taught.” He set aside endowments and annuities for his nieces, nephews, and cousins, but nothing for his own children. It was 1886 before the first African American earned a degree from McMicken’s University of Cincinnati.

“It is charged the drink contains cocaine, caffeine and alcohol in large proportions, and that one glass of it induces the drinking of five or six additional glasses.”

You are probably unprepared for work as a japanner, bristle-comber, hair-spinner, huckster, vamper, laster, core-maker, street sprinkler, or feather-curler.

Public hangings continued in Cincinnati until 1867.

Probably because you could get a whole goose for like a buck.

Today, Cincinnati loves its flying pigs, a fantasy creature based on our heritage as a pork packing powerhouse. Few contemporary Cincinnatians can imagine the pungent reality of “Porkopolis” in the days when slurping, grunting, reeking pigs infested every yard and alley.

Why does grandma call bell peppers “mangoes”? Why would a German never put sauerkraut on a sausage? How did Procter & Gamble ruin Jewish cooking? Find the answers on Dann Woellert’s blog, The Food Etymologist.