Knights of the Green Cloth and notable saloon lore
A fragmented column recounts famed gamblers and a notorious saloon keeper Reuben Parsons on Barclay Street, noting his wealth and decline, plus anecdotes about Bond bonds, James Carrayney, and the Herald offices. It also covers diverse items from a Nevada mining pump engine, alligator attacks in Louisiana, a Vermont street dog surgery gone wrong, and brief telegraph updates from Rico Mono to New York World humor amid a parade of oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
Reuben Parsons
Barclay Street
Astor House
White Times
Tribune
Henry Clay
Franklin Piere
Parsons
Bennett
James G
The
Herald
Wall Street
Winston Street
East Vermont Street
Mule Strike and Summer Land Weddings Jumble
The Mule tribe narrates a tale of a mule’s strike for corn and water ending when the beast grows giant and gentle. Andrew Jackson Davis claims in trance to see five weddings in Summer Land, raising Mormon questions for widowed polygamists. A tramp gathering near St Charles holds a barn party with makeshift ballroom, no women, and improvised music. Terre Haute Express notes a government brewery pushing a three cent schooner beer demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duquoin
Tiibune
Mule
Norristown
Andrew Jackson Davis
Summer Land
St. Charles
Terre Te Express
Diary of a New York Belle and a Philadelphia Murderer
A gossip diary from Saratoga mocks fashion and romance as a New York belle vows wealth and marriage to a millionaire, while a Philadelphia man surrenders for an English murder seven months old, seeking to be returned for trial. The piece ends with a quiz about a body kissing and a pistol bullet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Saratoga
Albert
Old Simmons
Mrs. Simmons
Hamilton
de Viney
Jones
Mr. Johnson
the Springs
Philadelphia
England
Cash Bush
Women in England Telegraph Service Proves Successful
The telegraph department in England employs over 1,100 women in London with only one dismissal in four years. Work hours run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., eight hours daily, in a kitchen and dining area. Pay starts at $2 weekly, rising to $3 for competent workers, with entrants from fourteen to eighteen. Average pay is $4.50 weekly, highest $7.50. Pension for a thirty-year clerk earning $7.50 would be $3.85 weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph Department
England
London
Lying Club’s Odd Meeting and Telegraph Woes
In Austin Reveille notes the Sazanac Lying Club and mocks liars while quoting a member who explains quadruplex telegraphy on the Virginia and Salt Lake circuit. He describes a knot in the wire at Dry Creek causing garbled messages as other items recount a Boston widow reuniting with a former lover who proposes again after years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sazanac
Austin
New
Reveille
Telegraph Company
Virginia and
Salt Lake
Dry Creek
Boston
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gents
Virginia
Nev
Enterprise
Overman
Ted Horee
New Orleans Democrat
Lake Charles
Calcasieu
Wm. Haskell
Morton
RicoMono
Thompson
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Bliss
John of
Abyssinia
Milwaukee
Foraven
Wheeling, W. Y
Columbu
New York World
Monroe
Columbus
Father Brown
Republican
Seymour
Howell
Fair Grounds
New York Observer
Jesus
Little Willie Johnson
Georgia
Clara Morris
Miss Multon
John Bradford
C. Carruthers
EO. Carruthers
P. Dromgoole & CO
Louisville, Ky
Alin
Grocer
Harry Rockafield
J. C. Shiy
South Meridian Street
Ind
Von24a1l
Lowell Flour and
Hawpatcil Hominy Mills
Owell Mills
Lowell
Notvests
Cafe & Thomas
Schwartzkopf & Habig, Proprietors
Washington Street
Columbus, Ind
Cincinnati
Coal and Coke
OAL. C
Pittsburg
F. Vogel
Trade Palace
J. I. Johnson
Cccloces
F. Donner
P, Emig & CO
B, Sreenwoop
Detroit
Pss Smith
Rialto
Walnut Street
Washington
Jackson Streets
Dan Smith
Bob
Minnesota
Brooklyn Bridge
Roebling
H. Daily
J. F. Wright
Chas. McCalla
Geo. Dahn
Thos. May
Robert Hendricks
Joseph Mounts
Chas. Kis, Hing
D. Stein
Samuel Gaddis
William Gaddis
James A. Smith
Geesae Kitzinger
East Side
Washington St
Conte
Ington Pebbet
LU BU
Indiana
Thomas & ‘Gysie
Nashville
Brown County
Court House
Eucoene Culley
Frank
OLD McEwen
Prenix
Bain
Dr. Wright
Harper’s and Scribner’s
Leslie’s
Gody’s
Peterson’s
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