Greg Hand

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.

For all of her unhappy life, Isabelle Phelps claimed to be haunted by the ghost of her cat. It was the spirit of this dead cat, she said, that drove her to murder.

“I would suggest the employment of your Gatling gun along the banks of the river for a few days, and it is probable the beast can be destroyed and its body captured.”