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Peter Funk and Sawdust Swindles [published September 13, 1885]

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      Tom Davis, the swindler, with two lives and...

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Con Artists and Mulberry Trees [published September 2, 1883]

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The big camp meetin’s at Ocean Grove and elsewhere...

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Beaucoup Buchu as a Path to Riches [published Feb. 22, 1885]

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      I see that the handsome Mrs. Helmbold has...

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Fortune-Tellers of Old New York [published Oct. 30, 1881]

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      Justice Wendell, not long ago, ordered a fortune-teller...

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1840s New York: Quakers, Millerites, Native Americans [published June 11, 1882]

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      Every now and then there is quite a...

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• Medicine

The Sarsaparilla Wars [published Jan. 14, 1883]

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      One of the most successful humbugs in the...

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• France

The Vinegar of the Four Thieves in New York [published July 8, 1883]

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      The reports of cholera in Egypt and yellow...

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• Gambling
• Harry Hill

Harry Humors the Bunco Steerers [published Dec. 19, 1880]

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About five years after I came to New York,...

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The Amateur Detective [published Oct. 1, 1882]

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      Philip Brown, an old New Yorker, who recently...

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