This Month in Police Gazette 1941: Pro wrestlers Zoska Burska and The Swedish Angel demonstrate some moves.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1894: A spread full of Police Gazette Champions: Annie Oakley, Champion Female Rifle Shot; Bob Fitzsimmons, future Heavyweight Champion; Steve Brodie, Champion Bridge Jumper; Louis Cyr, Champion Strong Man.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1897: Lillie Lancaster and Gertie Collins, "A Great Team of Grotesque Dancers."

#OTD in Police Gazette 1926: Gazette staff illustrator Alexander Calder sketches an afternoon at Ned Wayburn's Dancing School. Wayburn was an early 20th century Broadway choreographer.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1885: "Whipping a Wife-Beater. Mr. Francis Pyers gets a little wholesome correction in the Baltimore Jail."

#OTD in Police Gazette 1885: "The Police Gazette Club." At 150 pounds, perhaps the heaviest Indian club ever made.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1893: A "Trial of the Century" that never was. The Lizzie Borden trial had promised to be sensational. But as the Gazette reports in a short disappointed-sounding article, the state had no case and Lizzie was easily acquitted.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1881: 🎶Somewhere beyond the sea She's there watching for me. If I could fly like birds on high, Then straight to her arms I'd go sailing. 🎶

#OTD in Police Gazette 1884: "The Great Fistic Fizzle at Madison Square Garden." John L Sullivan explains to the crowd he's too sick to box his opponent Charlie Mitchell. The Gazette reports the reason for Sullivan's illness is he drank "too much of Mumm's Extra Dry."

#OTD in Police Gazette 1910: Heavyweight champ Jack Johnson cements his claim on the lineal championship by defeating former champ James Jeffries, who had retired undefeated in 1905.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1881: Sixteen years after leading the nation in reporting on the Lincoln assassination, the Gazette is on top of events again when President Garfield is attacked.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1931: Max Schmeling is featured, during the Gazette's "art deco" period, after defending his heavyweight championship vs Young Stribling.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1889: The Gazette reports on John L Sullivan's victory over Jake Kilrain for the Police Gazette World Heavyweight Championship and $20,000 (about $700,000 today).

#OTD in Police Gazette 1923: After a two-year break, heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey shows he's still got it by defeating Tommy Gibbons in a decision.

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#OTD in Police Gazette 1892: The Gazette covers the famous Homestead Strike. Pictured are "captured Pinkerton men forced to run the gauntlet."

#OTD in Police Gazette 1891: "Down, Down, to Destruction." Daredevil Zoelta Bentley falls from her balloon in Ohio.

#OTD in Police Gazette 1889: Continuing coverage of the Police Gazette World Heavyweight Championship. Page 1 shows the side bet between John L Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. Other illustration depicts Sullivan's arrest (prize fighting was still illegal at this time).

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#OTD in Police Gazette 1882: "God's Acre." A Camden, New Jersey, cemetery becomes a fine place for a picnic and some bare knuckle boxing.