Heroic Railway Mail Clerk Doe Pippin in West Service
A memoir fragment depicts Doe Pippin a railway postal clerk famed for bravery in a wreck where he saved mail under burning wreckage. His career with the Western division of the United States mail service followed risky detective work and a life of loyalty to duty, ending with his burial months earlier.
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Gy Warman
Railway Anilelesk
Grim Reaper
Washington
Doc
St. Louis
Denver
Dee
Whitker
Carr Street
St Louis
Doe Pippin
Chicago
Ilinois
LF Bootind
Evey Ehittes
Ganera
Tioc
Jay
Mandas
Neal
Doe
Pippin
Uncle Sam
West
Ren
Dec
Caurhine
Crouch
Amd
Tunnel States Mail Service
Young Daughter Forces Governor Run In Kentucky Tale
In Louisville on the eve of a Democratic state convention, Miss Young urged her father John Brown Young to seek the Kentucky governorship. She implored editor Henry Watterson to back the nomination, prompting a spirited Courier-Journal editorial and a foregone electoral victory for Young.
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Mr. Young
Kentucky
Louisville
Miss Young
Courier-Journal
Henry Watterson
Henry
Watterson
John Brown Young
Young
Chicago Chronicle
Shakespeare's Father and Sanitation Reported
A Stratford paper notes a talk on Shakespeare and sanitation at a provincial meeting of the Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of Health. It cites municipal records showing Jon Shakese paying a fourpence fine for a dirt heap and gutter neglect in Henry Street.
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Shakespeare
Lhe Incorporated Society of Medical Offects of Health
Stratford-no-Avon
Jon Shakese
Adries Quincy
Henry Reynolds
Henry Street
Only One Fault in Comedy Critique Prompt
A dramatic critic tells a young actor there is one fault in his comedy work. The reply questions the critic and the exchange ends with a quip about Tam’s "teagic".
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Chicago Post
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Ce Ed Weal Care
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Delaware
Philadelphia Record
Pritchard
Earth
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New York Tribune
Miss Gingham
Glasgow
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Melvor
Naebods
London Telegraph
Cogan Doyle
Sudan
Pat
L. Gentile
Second Avenue
Seattle
Wash
W. H. Dunlap
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ss. S. S. For
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Atlanta
Andrew Foy
E. S. Ormsby
H. A. Powers
O. W. Hopexins Cashier
Emmetsburg
Owa
Lands and Laws
Shas. McCormick
B.E. Kelly
C. J. Smith
Robert. Moses
James Dunigan
MW. Harrison, Melvin Fisk, ES. Ormsby
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