OK, there are probably hundreds of examples of men (and women) being cheapskates—not paying what they owed, or haggling over the bill. But here's betting none are as absurd as what happened in Delano, Kansas in early June of 1873.
“Red Beard,” or gunman Edward T. Beard, had opened a dance hall in Delano as a hangout for soldiers stationed nearby. But all went to hell on June 3, when a drunken soldier argued with a prostitute named Emma Stanley over her price for the night. The angry sol
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