Bulletin Newsboys Thanksgiving Day Chronicle
The Bulletin Newsboys recount a Thanksgiving outing in Honolulu on December 1, 1899. They describe riding buses through Waikiki and Punahou, watching football games, boxing among themselves, a luau style feast with pig and fish, swimming and canoeing, and meeting football players and Mr. Conkling who provided a horn and laughs.
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Fragmentary note evokes a late 19th century inquiry
A garbled historic letter fragment mentions swimming, a boy and a bulletin editor. The text references Honolulu, November 1890s and a back-and-forth exchange about writing a letter. Other phrases appear misprinted, offering little coherent narrative or context.
AH FAT AT THE ORPHEUM
Reporter recalls a chaotic Orpheum night with boys selling tickets and a crowd packing the venue. A judgelike man delivers blows, spectators laugh, a girl performs and a painted monkeylike figure entertains. A swinging man and comic antics end with a warning about police.
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