Year: 2024

• Eccentrics
• Entrepreneurs
• Royalty
• Sailing Ships
• Steamboats

Building and Welcoming Foreign Ships [published May 7, 1882]

jpkntz March 9, 2024

      New York ship-builders used to be so famous...

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• Entrepreneurs
• Stock Market

The Mining Board…of Manipulation [published Apr. 30, 1882]

jpkntz March 7, 2024

      Every now and then somethin’ about minin’, minin’...

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• Actors
• Theater

Stage Fright and Stage Pluck [published Feb. 19, 1882]

jpkntz March 6, 2024

      Some actors at my little theatre the other...

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• Entertainments
• Practical Jokes
• Theater

The Pranks of Signor Blitz [published Jan. 29, 1882]

jpkntz March 4, 2024

      They tell a good story of Tom Hamblin...

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• Lawyers
• Transportation

The First New York Horse Cart Railway; and the Court of Dover [published Jan. 8, 1882]

jpkntz March 2, 2024

      Ridin’ in a horse car the other day...

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• Entrepreneurs
• Landmarks
• Music
• Newspapers

Rambling Reminiscences of Castle Garden [published Dec. 18, 1881]

jpkntz March 1, 2024

       Discussin’ with a very old friend the other...

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• Banks
• Criminals
• Forgery

Three Great Wall Street Frauds [published Oct. 9, 1881]

jpkntz February 28, 2024

      Defalcations seem to be comin’ to the front...

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• Impostors
• Royalty

The Napoleon and Josephine of New York [published July 24, 1881]

jpkntz February 27, 2024

      It is not perhaps known to one person...

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• Actors
• Dance
• Eccentrics
• Women

A Fracas With Lola Montez; A Spat With Adah Isaacs Menken [published June 26, 1881]

jpkntz February 26, 2024

      I saw John Mullaly the other day passin’...

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• Engineers
• Landmarks
• Parades

When the Croton River Came to New York [published June 12, 1881]

jpkntz February 24, 2024

      In these days of bribery and corruption and...

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