Showing posts with label 1913. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1913. Show all posts

Saturday, May 6, 2023

1913 Presque Isle, Maine Jane Doe

A woman would come to Presque Isle, Maine in May 1913 and would die the same year from a hemorrhage. For some reason, her arrival was listed, but her date of death was not. 

Jane Doe was a white female.

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

March 1913 Plymouth, Pennsylvania Baby John Doe

 In March 1913, an infant boy was left in an orchard in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. The boy would then die from exposure. 

SOURCES:
Find a Grave

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Lost Media: Back to Life (1913)

Back to Life is a 20-minute silent film. It was released on November 24, 1913. The movie stared William Worthington as The Gambler, Pauline Bush as The Wife, J. Warren Kerrigan as Jim the Outlaw, Jessalyn Van Trump as The Girl, and Lon Chaney as The Rival. The film is now considered lost. 

Plot:

A gambler brings his sick wife to the mountains after they learn she has tuberculosis and needed special care. The gambler soon becomes tired of having to care for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The wife would soon find out about the infidelity and would walk out to the woods to die.

In the woods, the wife would find an outlaw called Jim. He was weak from blood loss and she would nurse him back to health. Jim in turn for her help takes her to a cabin with an elderly couple in the hills. They would then nurse her back to health.

The wife still loved her husband and decided to return to gain his love back. When she returned home though she finds that he had been shot and killed by a rival in a saloon brawl. She would then go to Jim and the two would find happiness together. 


SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Lon Chaney

Silent Era

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Mystery Man and his Prisoner at Hiawatha Cemetery

I had found an interesting article from 1913. I don't know for sure if it was exaggerated, or a hoax, or a lie, or solved, but interesting none the less.

Creepy Mystery -


SOURCES:
The Troy Republican

Disappearance of Columbus G. McLeod

In 1908, 62/63-year-old Columbus G. McLeod was a DeSoto County sheriff. On November 30th he carried out game law enforcement duties in Lee C...