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Oddities and hints of a grand past in period items
A mash of stray anecdotes and headlines: a euchre party quip about a black cat in England, notes on early American minstrel tunes and performers led by a man named Johnson, a Detroit Free Press snippet of a trolley conductor’s joke, etiquette lessons, and brief obituaries and incidents. It references King Humbert, Cork handbills, a Paris fair secretary, a Mexico mine disaster, Rockefeller’s Wellesley gift, and a New York figure Archibald Dyes.
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England
King Humbert
Charles Cross
Toe” Rodgers
Cook County
Chicago
United States Army
Philippines
Cork
Count Mengden
Lewis Harvine Finney
Navy Long
Warm Springs
Richard
Matelumla
Mexico
Henry H. Sullivan
John D. Rockefeller
Wellesley
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