A bored historian's celebration of old newspapers and the people, stories and humor found therein.
Since the threatening letter I posted was such a hit, here is another.
This one, a very eloquent attempt at extortion.
(Based on what I saw while researching these, “Blow out Your Brains” was the very favorite threat of 18th century would-be-racketeers.)
(source: The London Gazette, January 22, 1763.)
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£800? Geez, that would have been an enormous sum they are demanding! The man they were blackmailing must have been...
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like reading my police reports every monday!
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