Steele's Rudimentary Economics Tales from 1885-86, Part I Posted June-July, 2001

Cleverly disguised under the cover of RUDIMENTARY ECONOMICS is hidden a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the late 1800s. 1885 to be exact. The first clipping apparently is from April, the last from January 26, 1886. A few are out of chronological order.

I have been looking for something new ... something less tired than NEWNES ... something more secular than Wescott. I think I have found it: It is a scrapbook of sadness, gore, tragedy, woe, wasted lives, bloodlettings, shootings, live burials and fatal fogs. Little things that will make your own life a little peppier ... perhaps, perhaps not.

As part of my regular journals, I have been sorting through this wealth of misery and providing excerpts. Here are gathered the various pieces that I "re-clipped" in June and July of 2001. (I continued clipping in August.)

• June 27, 2001
  • A Corpse in a Trunk
  
  
• June 28, 2001
  • A Corpse in a Trunk ... Continued
  • Typo in Final Fate
  • Definitely Burned
  
  
• June 29, 2001
  • Pre-Hype
  • Settled Out of Court
  • Campfire Boys
  • Off With Her Head!
  • Postmortem Travel
  
  
• June 30, 2001
  • Hanging Out With Dad
  • Ballooning With a Hotpoint
  • Hand Off
  • Doggie Footsie
  • Arsenic and Old Cake
  • Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Mysteries of the Trunk Murder Revealed
  
  
• July 4, 2001
  • Glub, Glub
  • Express Male
  • No Fireworks for Him
  • A Fateful Destination
  
  
• July 5, 2001
  • General Malpractice?
  • She Didn't Understand Him
  
  
• July 6, 2001
  • Fever Ship
  • Brank of Toddington Hall
  • Bones in the Ash Dump
  • Alice Was Too Fast
  
  
• July 7, 2001
  • A Bright Razor Drawn
  • Looking Out the Window
  • Tossed From a Tug
  • Aprons Over Their Heads
  
  
• July 8, 2001
  • Two Bits Solves it All
  • Irreparably Sullied by a Cad
  • Father of the Bride
  • Pistol Packing Widow Defends Home
  
  
• July 9, 2001
  • A Thirst for Fence Fittings
  • I Wed on Your Grave
  
  
• July 10, 2001
  • Inferno of Caged Unfortunates
  
  
• July 11, 2001
  • Close Call for a Pugilist
  • Xenia's Demons
  • Weary of the Fast Life
  
  
• July 13, 2001
  • Two Ghost Stories
  
  
• July 14, 2001
  • Butcher Cherry's Wild Ride
  • Narrowly Saved from Ruin
  
  
• July 15, 2001
  • More on Wanda's Wanderlust
  
  
• July 16, 2001
  • They Kept Their Powder Dry
  
  
• July 17, 2001
  • Goodbye Dad, Hello God
  
  
• July 18, 2001
  • Honeymoon Surprise
  • Chicken Little Might Have Helped
  • Before Rock Concerts
  • Nearly Synchronized Departure
  • Carbolic Farewell
  • Opportunity Knocks
  • High Proof Nightcap
  • Wait, I'm Not Ready!
  • Not the "Get Well Quickly Inn"
  
  
• July 20, 2001
  • No Priest Required
  
  
• July 21, 2001
  • Kiddie Barbeque
  • Little Davie's Maggots
  
  
• July 22, 2001
  • Watermelon Partners
  • A Watched Child Never Boils
  • He Probably Would Have Had a Comment
  • Thrusting Below the Waist
  • NRA Family Night
  • Ineffective Protective Brothers
  
  
• July 23, 2001
  • Sending "Tea" to China
  • Pennsylvania's Holey Places
  
  
• July 24, 2001
  • An Evil Servant Girl
  • Trafficking in Libretti
  • A Chat With Mrs. Brown
  • Mrs. Clever Favored the Young
  
  
• July 25, 2001
  • Family Feud
  
  
• July 29, 2001
  • Mislabeled as Quinine
  • Silver Thread and a Shot of Brandy

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