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For Argument’s Sake: Count Adam Gurowski [published Aug. 30, 1885]

jpkntz June 7, 2024

      New York has always had more than its...

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• Eccentrics
• Jews
• Landmarks
• Writers and Editors

Niagara Falls, Refuge to New Yorkers [published Mar. 18, 1883]

jpkntz March 28, 2024

      The recent talk about turnin’ Niagara Falls into...

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• 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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• 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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• Actors
• Eccentrics

Two Odd Characters of the Stage [published Apr. 24, 1881]

jpkntz February 20, 2024

      One of the funniest people ever connected with...

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• Eccentrics
• Women

Miss America (Vespucci) Comes to New York [published May 31, 1885]

jpkntz February 5, 2024

      All sorts of people come to New York...

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• Eccentrics
• Writers and Editors

Huggins, the Barber Poet of New York [published Aug. 20, 1882]

jpkntz January 21, 2024

      The famous old-time New York barber, Huggins, was...

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• Anecdotes
• Eccentrics
• Writers and Editors

Stephen H. Branch, a New York Gadfly [published Dec. 14, 1884]

jpkntz January 7, 2024

      There has generally been some prominent local “crank”...

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• Alcohol
• Anecdotes
• Eccentrics
• Inventors

Extremes of Self-Promotion: John B. Gaugh and Henry M. Paine [published June 5, 1881]

jpkntz November 27, 2023

      People were just as anxious to get and...

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• Con Artists
• Eccentrics
• Women

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

jpkntz October 9, 2023

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

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