Monday, March 15, 2021

Dead Presidents Podcast Episode 05 - James Monroe & Top 5 Presidential Last Words



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Whiskey for sale by Red Barry – The Clarion and Tennessee State Gazette (Nashville, TN) – September 14, 1819

Wet Nurse Wanted – The National Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) – August 13, 1822

Debts owed to JR Lane – The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, NC) – June 11, 1819

Don’t cut John G. Camp’s wood – The Niagara Patriot (Buffalo, NY) – June 2, 1818

Barnabas O’Farril has houses for sale and also his wife left him – The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, NC) – June 11, 1819

Hogsheads of rum imported by Solomon Porter – Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) – September 23, 1817

Stephen Kimball and his wife Esther Matilda – National Standard (Middlebury, VT) – December 25, 1821

THE HARROWING TRUE CRIME TALE OF JOHN LECHLER
John Lechler accuses his wife Mary of defiling their matrimonial bed – Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) – October 19, 1821

$400 reward for fugitive John Lechler accused of murder – Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, PA) – April 6, 1822

Publication of the Dying Confession of John Lechler – Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, PA) – October 25, 1822

The Dying Confession of John Lechler as published on October 25, 1822:   

Monday, March 8, 2021

Dead Presidents Podcast Episode 04 - James Madison & Top 5 Failed Assassins

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Pittsburgh Dog Ordinance – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – September 20, 1816

John D. Paris and his wife Nancy – Burlington Gazette (Burlington, VT) – March 24, 1815

John Pryor and his wife Ann – Virginia Argus (Richmond, VA) – July 11, 1811

South Carolina Jockey Club – The Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC) – February 15, 1817

John Severans and his wife Abigail – Vermont Watchman and State Journal (Montpelier, VT) –August 4, 1814

Levi Harris and his wife Fanny – Vermont Gazette (Burlington, VT) – November 14, 1814

Levi Harris and his wife Fanny – Vermont Gazette (Burlington, VT) – January 2, 1815

Reward for the man who ran off with Charles McCarthy’s wife – The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) – August 24, 1814

Beware of Selinda Peckham’s husband Lewis – The Advertiser (Wilkes-Barre, PA) – April 14, 1815

Monday, March 1, 2021

Dead Presidents Podcast Episode 03 - Thomas Jefferson & Top 5 Presidential Cradle-Robbers

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Harvey’s Anti-Venereal Pills – The Evening Post (New York, NY) – July 2, 1807

William Eddy and his wife Rachel – Vermont Gazette (Bennington, VT) – January 27, 1807

Jacob Zeiger and his wife Elizabeth – The Weekly Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA) – May 13, 1806

Green Turtle Soup at J. Nice’s German Hall – Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) – June 11, 1808

Thomas Pritchard and his wife Nancy – The Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, NC) – December 22, 1808 

Freelove McIntosh and her husband William – The Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) – October 11, 1803

Reward for Army Deserter – Aurora General Advertiser – October 22, 1808

John Borns and his wife Elizabeth – Aurora General Advertiser – July 7, 1806

Elizabeth Borns responds – Aurora General Advertiser – July 10, 1806

Monday, February 22, 2021

Dead Presidents Podcast Episode 02 - John Adams & Top 5 Presidential Adulterers

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Dr. Sheed’s Venereal Cure – Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) – February 14, 1798

French Boy Wanted – Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) – June 27, 1797

Jacob Burt and his wife Phebe – The Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) – November 12, 1799

Dr. Hooper’s Female Pills – Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC) – August 12, 1800

Thomas Gisborne’s Duties of the Female Sex – The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) – January 29, 1798

Hezekiah Eldredge and his wife Hannah – Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) – September 24, 1798

Dr. Church’s Antispasmodic Elixir – Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) – December 10, 1798

Dr. Church’s Vegetable Lotion – Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) – December 10, 1798

William Allen and his wife Lydia – The Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) – February 3, 1797

Lydia Allen returns – The Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) – March 17, 1797




Monday, February 15, 2021

Dead Presidents Podcast Episode 01 - George Washington & Top 5 Drunkest Presidents



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Printing Offices of Joseph Crookshank – The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) – June 30, 1789

Druggist William Delany – The Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia, PA) – October 12, 1793

Horse Thief! – The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) – December 28, 1791

Craig & McDowell Hatters – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – August 24, 1793

Goldsmith James Poupard – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – April 30, 1790

Famous Horse Dragon – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – May 14, 1796

Thomas Miller and his wife Rosanna – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – May 30, 1795

Mrs. Pine’s Boarding School for Young Ladies – The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA) – December 30, 1789

Hemp Wanted by John Irwin – Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – December 12, 1795