The Covington Blue Sox, of the Federal League.
They were originally to be a Cincinnati team, but moved across the river before the season
started in 1913. The played, and lost, the first ever Federal League (Wikipedia) game in Cleveland on
May 9, 1913. They moved to Kansas City in June of that year, due to a lack of
attendance. A picture of the park, and the team logo, are at this site.
More on the history of the team is at this site.
Cam Miller's 36-minute “Our True Blues:The Story of the Covington Blue Sox”
Cam Miller's 27-minute documentary, “Our Shining Stars: The Story of the Star Base Ball Club of Covington, Ky.”
The Stars thrived in the 1870's with a ballpark between Madison, Scott, 18th and 17th.
An earlier baseball team were the Covington Copecs.
The Behringer-Crawford had this ad and this piece on the Covington Stars
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| Covingt0n's Wolf Fletchter patented a better way to make baseballs. | |
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| Chautauqua (Wikipedia) in Covington | Covington, c. 1900 | We have no idea . . . |
What did people do before they had radio and TV, let alone the internet? They met in fraternal groups, they kept up to speed on current affairs, they went to church, and they drank. |
As early as 1916, Covington had 16 motion picture theaters.
Cincinnati men come to Covington. Get Drunk. Sing to a pile of rocks. Arrested. Cincinnati paper wonders why a drunk singing to a rock isn't a fine thing to be able to do. |
The Daily Commonwealth, March 27, 1883
Wikipedia explains shinny.
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| We know that there were at least these newspapers in pre-Civil War Covington. The dates represent issues that have been found, or referenced (the *), not a start or stop date . The division symbol indicates also publishing after the war. W is weekly. |
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 The Courier-Journal, July 1 ,1836 |
 The Raleigh Microcosm, May 30 ,1840 |
 National Banner and Nashville Whig , May 27, 1831 |
 The True Republican, May 13 ,1842 |
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Fly over during Covington's 1965 Sesquicentennial Parade
From a Facebook post by Old Northern Kentucky
Dan Rice's Menagerie comes to 2nd and Russell
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, September 19, 1865
The Dan Rice Menagerie also came to Covington in 1855 and 1860.
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| P. T. Barnum's Traveling Museum comes to town, 1875 | Sells Brothers' Railroad Show comes to town, April 24, 1882. featuring "the smallest full- grown elephant on earth." | The Menagerie, 150 wild animals, 1853 |
The Dan Rice Menagerie also came to Covington in 1855 and 1860.
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The New United Monster Show, 1879 |
The London Circus, April, 1875 | Covington Journal, September 23, 1871 |
from a 25 Years Ago column in the Kentucky Post, May 4, 1923
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| Lotteries were a thing in the nineteenth century | |
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| The Covington Zoo? | The Eden Park Railway | |
| Postcard typos. Obviously Cincinnati. | ||
