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· Nov 20
The National Police Gazette published over 5,000 issues and ran for 131 years, making it one of the longest-running periodicals in North American publishing history. Let's look back at what gave it its punch....
(And thanks to Pulp Librarian for inspiring this thread style!)
(And thanks to Pulp Librarian for inspiring this thread style!)
#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."
October 7, 2026 at 10:58 PM
#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 1923: Jack Dempsey makes the cover after defending his world heavyweight championship with a 2nd-round KO of Luis Firpo.
October 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1923: Jack Dempsey makes the cover after defending his world heavyweight championship with a 2nd-round KO of Luis Firpo.
#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.
October 3, 2026 at 6:29 PM
#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.
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.)
September 30, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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.)
#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.
September 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
#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.
#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.
September 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
#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.
#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.
September 22, 2026 at 12:28 PM
#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.
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.
September 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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.
#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.
September 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
#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 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)!
September 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
#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)!
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1933: After a brief shutdown caused by a Depression-related bankruptcy, the Gazette returns with issue No. 1 under new management.
September 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1933: After a brief shutdown caused by a Depression-related bankruptcy, the Gazette returns with issue No. 1 under new management.
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.
September 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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.
#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.
August 30, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#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.
#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.
August 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
#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.
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August 25, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The rapture happened and only Dolly ascended.
#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.
August 24, 2026 at 12:56 PM
#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.
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Perhaps the most famous photo portrait of the 19th century, John L Sullivan is captured exclusively by the Police Gazette.
August 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1892: Perhaps the most famous photo portrait of the 19th century, John L Sullivan is captured exclusively by the Police Gazette.
#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.)
August 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
#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.)
#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.
August 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
#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.
#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.
August 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
#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.
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: "The Last Whitechapel Murder." Alice Mackenzie, thought to have been yet another Jack-the-Ripper victim, is found.
August 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1889: "The Last Whitechapel Murder." Alice Mackenzie, thought to have been yet another Jack-the-Ripper victim, is found.
#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.
August 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
#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.
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.
August 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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.