Month: August 2023

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Italian Singers Fail to Impress New York Audience at Italian Opera [published June 25, 1882]

jpkntz August 31, 2023

I came across Max Maretzek the other day....

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Fun and Excitement Among the East Side Shipwrights [published July 23, 1882]

jpkntz August 30, 2023

[CAUTION: THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER COLUMN, WRITTEN IN 1882, CONTAINS...

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The Mettle of Three Actresses of the Past [published Nov. 12, 1882]

jpkntz August 28, 2023

It is not very often that I take...

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How Sandy Spencer Got to New York [published May 3, 1885]

jpkntz August 25, 2023

Sandy Spencer is dead, and the papers have...

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Counterfeiter Drury Outwits His Double-Crossing Associate, Marcus Cicero Stanley [published July 12, 1885]

jpkntz August 24, 2023

Marcus Cicero Stanley, the mysterious, has gone to the...

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The Fourteenth Ward: Better Elections Through Brawling [published Oct. 4, 1885]

jpkntz August 24, 2023

At this period in the political canvass, when...

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Middy Morgan, Livestock Authority and Pioneer Reporter [published Nov. 8, 1885]

jpkntz August 22, 2023

She was walkin’, as usual, very fast, with...

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Col. Reeves of the Charge of the Six Hundred (charged) [published Aug. 7, 1881]

jpkntz August 21, 2023

Years ago, there lived a man in Brooklyn...

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Theater Managers of the Past Generation [published Sep. 18, 1881)

jpkntz August 20, 2023

I passed Harry Jarrett recently on Broadway, and...

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Fishing Lore With Joe Dodd [published Sep. 11, 1881]

jpkntz August 19, 2023

I have always been fond of goin’ fishing,...