Month: August 2023

• Eccentrics
• Marriage and Divorce
• Writers and Editors

Three Odd Birds and Their Bad Marriages [published Apr. 17, 1881]

jpkntz August 18, 2023

      Among the “men about town” that used to...

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• Eccentrics
• Horses and Horseracing
• Marriage and Divorce
• Writers and Editors

The Horse Tamer and the Woman Tamer [published Oct. 28, 1883]

jpkntz August 17, 2023

      The educated horses which are now drawin’ crowds...

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• Deaths
• Revolutionary War

Dick Lippincott and the Loyalist vs. Rebel Vendetta [published Dec. 9, 1883]

jpkntz August 16, 2023

      The centennial celebration of Evacuation day is now...

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• Alcohol
• Detectives
• Scandals

Internal Revenue agent Brooks and the Whiskey Ring [published Sep. 7, 1884]

jpkntz August 15, 2023

      I came across Sheridan Shook the other day...

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• Actors
• Theater

Wilkins’ Dramatic Academy [published Sep. 21, 1884]

jpkntz August 14, 2023

      Somebody said in my hearin’ the other day...

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• Civil War
• Entrepreneurs

The Great Bean Man [published July 3, 1881]

jpkntz August 13, 2023

      There is a quaint old gentleman livin’ in...

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• Actors
• Marriage and Divorce
• Theater

Sophocles in New York and Other Actor Foibles [published Aug. 14, 1881]

jpkntz August 12, 2023

      The papers lately made quite a time about...

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• Disasters
• Long Island
• Sailing Ships

Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach [published Sep. 4, 1881]

jpkntz August 11, 2023

      Everythin’ has  been always big about Rockaway, even...

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• Criminals
• Judges
• Trials

Reminiscences of the Grand Jury Room [published Feb. 18, 1883]

jpkntz August 10, 2023

      Accordin’ to the latest developments, men, especially rich...

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• Con Artists
• Deaths
• Entrepreneurs
• Epidemics
• France

The Vinegar of the Four Thieves in New York [published July 8, 1883]

jpkntz August 9, 2023

      The reports of cholera in Egypt and yellow...

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