Red Light District (1898? From NYC or Texas?)

[Stephen Goranson]

{Headline and sub-head:} On His Way Home in Baldwin: Unfortunately, Kelly?s
Way Led through the Red-Light District (News)
      The Denver Evening Post (Denver, CO) Friday, December 03, 1897; pg. 10;
col C [Gale !9th century Newspapers]

The article reports on a court hearing, presumably in Denver. He was charged
with vagrancy, said to be hanging around the saloons at Nineteenth and Market
for months.

BTW the page checks out OK for the date. Yesterday, in looking for
Hoosier (and
variants) one date must have been wrong, since it said Governor Ray had just
died, but supposedly dated before he died. His Hoosier (or otherwise spelled)
newspaper, which the misdated text mentioned, I didn't find listed on
WorldCat.
Perhaps of interest: the June 2007 Indiana Magazine of History (v.103 n.2)
includes Jonathan Clark Smith, "Not Southern Scorn but Local Pride: The Origin
of the Word Hoosier and Indiana's River Cultire." It does not arrive at *the*
origin, but adds some early info, and makes a perhaps pretty good case that it
might be river transport related. (It does not include Barry's 1832
Hoosier-bait refs.)

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.com/~goranson

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