Month: September 2023

• Actors
• Newspapers
• Theater
• Writers and Editors

Horace Greeley’s Actress Infatuation [published Feb. 26, 1882]

jpkntz September 8, 2023

      People who knew Horace Greeley, and people who...

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• Criminals
• Detectives

Spence Pettis, Dishonored Among Thieves [published Dec. 25, 1881]

jpkntz September 7, 2023

      I have mentioned in the course of these...

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• African-Americans
• Churches
• Deaths
• Firefighters

John Brown’s Body…In New York! [published Dec. 18, 1881]

jpkntz September 5, 2023

      About this time twenty-two years ago the city...

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• Actors
• Animals
• Circus
• Entertainments
• Minstrels

A Miscellany of Performer Anecdotes [published Jan. 8, 1882]

jpkntz September 5, 2023

      I got interested the other day in readin’...

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• Athletes
• Boxing

Next Up for John L. Sullivan: John M. Laflin [published Nov. 9, 1884]

jpkntz September 3, 2023

      Now that the election agony is over, the...

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• Writers and Editors

George William Curtis Honors His Debt [published July 24, 1884]

jpkntz September 2, 2023

      I am not a politician, and so don’t...

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• Lawyers
• Murder
• Trials

The First Cases of Three Prominent Lawyers [published Dec. 4, 1881]

jpkntz September 1, 2023

      One of the institutions of old New York...

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