Year: 2023

• Criminals
• Impostors

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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• Actors
• Religion
• Theater

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
• New Jersey

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

jpkntz August 19, 2023

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

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• 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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