Year: 2023

• Artists
• Philanthropists
• Women

How Peter Cooper Rewarded the Kindness of Two Artists [published Apr. 8, 1883]

jpkntz September 15, 2023

      The recent death of New York’s oldest and...

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• Con Artists
• Entrepreneurs
• Medicine

The Sarsaparilla Wars [published Jan. 14, 1883]

jpkntz September 14, 2023

      One of the most successful humbugs in the...

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• France
• Marriage and Divorce
• Newspapers
• Politicians

How a Hundred Dollar Loan To a Lovesick Frenchman Changed World History [published Feb. 4, 1883]

jpkntz September 13, 2023

      The death of Gambetta, and the talk in...

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• African-Americans
• Civil War
• Women
• Writers and Editors

Strange History of an Unconventional Family [published June 14, 1885]

jpkntz September 12, 2023

      Some thirty-five years ago a family by the...

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• Lawyers
• Newspapers
• Stock Market

Jacob Barker Thrived On Misfortune [published May 21, 1882]

jpkntz September 10, 2023

      People talk about the late Commodore Vanderbilt as...

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• Cuba
• Spies

The Cuban Junta Excitement [published May 14, 1882]

jpkntz September 9, 2023

      Several Cuban gentleman visited my place the other...

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• 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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