Throwing firecrackers a Jewish tradition?...
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October 13, 1784
THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, Oct. 13, 1784 Page 2 contains a report reading:
"On
Thursday evening about six o'clock as some boys were diverting
themselves with throwning squibs round a small bonfire in Duke's Place,
it being a kind of holiday among the Jews, a person who keeps a
coffee-house near the place being much exasperated at their behaviour
took a loaded blunderbuss & fired among them from a one pair of
stairs window whereby one boy was instantly shot dead..." with a
bit more (see photos). Complete in 4 pages, folio size, partial
red-inked tax stamp on the front page, decorative masthead, nice
condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
