Year: 2024

• Hotels
• Landmarks
• Practical Jokes
• Restaurants

The Varied History of the Knickerbocker Cottage [published Mar. 29, 1885]

jpkntz February 4, 2024

      The old Knickerbocker Cottage on Sixth avenue has...

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• Entertainments
• Inventors
• Sports

Roller Skating Comes to New York [published Mar. 8, 1885]

jpkntz February 3, 2024

      The roller-skatin’ mania has struck the Madison Square...

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• Opera

The Genteel Manners of Pasquale Brignoli [published Nov. 9, 1884]

jpkntz February 1, 2024

      “If every woman who used to fancy herself...

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• Elections
• Politicians
• Riots

The Stephen A. Douglas Rally Free-For-All at Jones Wood [published Oct. 12, 1884]

jpkntz January 31, 2024

      I see they announced a big, old-fashioned barbecue...

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• Brooklyn
• Disasters

The New York Earthquake of 1870 [published Aug. 17, 1884]

jpkntz January 30, 2024

      People have been talkin’ earthquake durin’ the last...

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• Actors
• England
• Theater

Lester Wallack, American Theater Icon and Anglophile [published July 20, 1884]

jpkntz January 30, 2024

      Everybody knows Lester Wallack, and yet it is...

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• Deaths
• Gambling

New York’s Boss Gambler and His Family Melodrama [published May 18, 1884]

jpkntz January 29, 2024

      For one, I have never been able to...

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• Canada
• Royalty
• Scandals
• Theater

Why Prince Leopold’s North American Tour Was Interrupted [published Apr. 13, 1884]

jpkntz January 27, 2024

      It will be remembered by some of our...

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• Politicians
• Practical Jokes

Mike Walsh Shades a Tiffany [published Jan. 13, 1884]

jpkntz January 27, 2024

      In a precedin’ chapter I have alluded to...

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• Dance

Stressed Ballet Dancers [published Dec. 17, 1882]

jpkntz January 25, 2024

      There is one thing that has always struck...

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