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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1882: "The Fiends of Religion. How the Brooklyn hypocrites torture the sick and dying with the hellish clangor of their Sunday church bells."

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1882: An illustration of a child in bed and church bells outside the window. "The Fiends of Religion. How the Brooklyn hypocrites torture the sick and dying with the hellish clangor of their Sunday church bells."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1923: Jack Dempsey makes the cover after defending his world heavyweight championship with a 2nd-round KO of Luis Firpo.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1903: From 1877 onward, the Gazette always promoted integration in sports (as the top promoter in boxing, it's why boxing was integrated before other pro sports). Here the Gazette features the North Dakota amateur state baseball champions.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1953: "Is Marciano a Dirty Fighter?" The Gazette asking a fair question. (Rocky Marciano was known to throw an elbow now and then.)

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1896: The first people ever to row a boat across an ocean, George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen as they appeared upon arrival in France from New York City. They were sponsored by the Police Gazette and named their boat after publisher Richard K Fox.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: File under Outlaw & Disorder: "Shot His Wife's Paramour." A former sheriff kills a former prosecutor, caught escaping from the bedroom of the sheriff's wife.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1894: Heavyweight champ James Corbett and Peter Courtney put on an exhibition in Thomas Edison's new motion-picture studio. The frame shown is likely the moment depicted by the Gazette artist (probably standing in the back row). Film available on YouTube.

A frame from an 1894 Edison film showing James Corbett in a boxing exhibition.

Edison's movie studio, the "Black Maria," as it appears today.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1894: Heavyweight champ James Corbett and Peter Courtney put on an exhibition in Thomas Edison's new motion-picture studio.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1955: The cover on which Willem de Kooning based his famous painting "Police Gazette," which last sold for $63.5 million.

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1955: The cover on which Willem de Kooning based his famous painting "Police Gazette," (shown) which last sold for $63.5 million.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: James Joyce's Ulysses shows Alf & Terry giggling over the Police Gazette, with its "secrets for enlarging your private parts" & this story about Norman W Tupper, wealthy Chicago contractor, finding his pretty wife seated on the lap of Officer Taylor.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: James Joyce's Ulysses shows Alf & Terry giggling over the Police Gazette, with its ads for "secrets for enlarging your private parts."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1896: Gazette publisher Richard K Fox sponsored George Harbo & Frank Samuelsen, 1st people ever to row a boat across an ocean. This note from the US consul in Le Havre, France, confirms their arrival and requests reimbursement for expenses (paid of course)!

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1933: After a brief shutdown caused by a Depression-related bankruptcy, the Gazette returns with issue No. 1 under new management.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1951: First in Gazette's "Hitler Is Alive!" series. Premise being Hitler escaped Germany & was plotting return. Largely a metaphor, series reminded readers Hitler's ideas were still alive & could return. By that measure, Hitler is still alive today.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1884: Naval world championship bare knuckle boxing. US Navy champion Jimmy Ross defeats Harry Whittell of the British Royal Navy in Chile, South America.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Lizzie Borden is charged with murdering her parents. She was later easily acquitted, so the killer's identity remains a mystery to this day.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Headline for arrest of Lizzie Borden, charged with murdering her parents.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Photo-engraving portrait of Lizzie Borden, charged with murdering her parents. She was later easily acquitted, so the killer's identity remains a mystery to this day.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Illustration of the arrest of Lizzie Borden, charged with murdering her parents. She was later easily acquitted, so the killer's identity remains a mystery to this day.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1929: Charlie Chaplin promotes his next film "City Lights," which would not come out for almost two more years. Top headline refers to Sammy Mandell retaining his World Lightweight Title in a split decision over Tony Canzoneri.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1925: Gazette staff artist Alexander Calder sketches some of the fun at Coney Island.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Perhaps the most famous photo portrait of the 19th century, John L Sullivan is captured exclusively by the Police Gazette.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: The Gazette covers the Fall River, Massachusetts, murders. Lizzie Borden's wealthy father and step-mother were killed with an ax. At this point the Gazette speculates the assailant was male. (Spoiler: Lizzie was later easily acquitted of the crime.)

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: George Dixon, the first black holder of a Police Gazette Championship belt (now gloved), defends his World Featherweight title vs Eddie Pierce.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1888: The Gazette is the only contemporary publication to depict the first person ever to surf on the East Coast of the United States, a "Sandwich Island Girl" whose name is lost to history.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: "The Last Whitechapel Murder." Alice Mackenzie, thought to have been yet another Jack-the-Ripper victim, is found.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1884: Fredericka Mandelbaum, the most famous stolen-property fence in 19th-century New York City, is finally arrested and charged. However, she would later skip bail and spend the rest of her years in Canada.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1955: The Gazette takes issue with a newspaper winning a Pulitzer Prize for an exposé on corruption in Phenix City, Alabama, when the Gazette had published a substantially similar exposé 8 years earlier & got nothing but grief from the same newspaper.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1949: "Mauling Mommas." Juanita Coffman and Dotty Dotson compete in Teaneck, NJ, with Dotson emerging victorious.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1957: The Gazette's "New Deal for Boxing" includes a proposal for open-scoring system like what is currently being used in some jurisdictions. Also pictured are Carmen Basilio & Jersey Joe Walcott receiving honorary Police Gazette Championship belts.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1924: Gazette staff artist Alexander Calder sketches world-record bicyclist Alf Goullet.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1945: "Mildred Burke, Champion Lady Wrestler, Demonstrates Holds."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This Month in @PoliceGazette 1959: "Hate Is Her Business!" The Gazette profiles champion pro wrestler the Fabulous Moolah.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1891: "Down, Down, to Destruction." Daredevil Zoelta Bentley falls from her balloon in Ohio.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: The Gazette, a friend of labor, reports on the Homestead Strike and Riot in which 10 people were killed during one of the most famous labor disputes in U.S. history. Pictured are "captured Pinkerton men forced to run the gauntlet."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1900: Captain Louis Sorcho receives a gold Police Gazette medal for breaking the record for continuous time under water in a diving suit. Sorcho remained under water for 8 hrs 21 min 45 sec.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: The Gazette reports on the World Heavyweight Championship between John L Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, perhaps the most famous sporting event of the 19th century.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: The Gazette headline for John L Sullivan winning the World Heavyweight Championship vs Jake Kilrain, perhaps the most famous sporting event of the 19th century.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: The Gazette illustration for the World Heavyweight Championship showing John L Sullivan and Jake Kilrain punching each other, perhaps the most famous sporting event of the 19th century.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1931: Max Schmeling is featured during the Gazette's "art deco" period, after defending his heavyweight championship vs Young Stribling.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1881: Sixteen years after leading the nation in reporting on the Lincoln assassination, the Gazette is on top of events again when President Garfield is attacked.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1910: Jack Johnson defends his World Heavyweight title vs former champ James Jeffries, who'd come out of retirement for one of the most hyped fights in history.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1884: "The Great Fistic Fizzle at Madison Square Garden [top center]." At bottom, John L Sullivan explains to crowd he's too sick to box opponent Charlie Mitchell. Gazette reports the reason for Sullivan's illness is he drank "too much of Mumm's Extra Dry."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1896: "Insane in the Woods." Gazette artists once again demonstrate their extraordinary skill with woodcut illustrations.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: A "Trial of the Century" that never was. The Lizzie Borden trial had promised to be sensational. But as the Gazette reports in a short disappointed-sounding article, the state had no case and Lizzie was easily acquitted.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1894: Mayme Himple files one of the early lawsuits for sexual harassment in the workplace, in Rochester, New York.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1885: "The Police Gazette Club." At 150 pounds, perhaps the heaviest Indian club ever made.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1885: "Whipping a Wife-Beater. Mr. Francis Pyers gets a little wholesome correction in the Baltimore Jail."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1926: Gazette staff illustrator Alexander Calder spends "An Afternoon at Ned Wayburn's Dancing School."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1897: Lillie Lancaster and Gertie Collins are a great team of "grotesque dancers."

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1894: A spread featuring Police Gazette Champion Female Rifle Shot Annie Oakley, world middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons, Police Gazette Champion Bridge Jumper Steve Brodie and Police Gazette Champion Strong Man of the World Louis Cyr.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1925: Gazette staff illustrator Alexander Calder takes in a baseball game at New York's Polo Grounds.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1896: Josephine "Minerva" Blatt wins the Police Gazette medal as Champion Strong Woman of the World.

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Police Gazette @policegazette.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1893: During the trial of Lizzie Borden, she faints at the sight of "the grinning skulls of her murdered parents."

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