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My First Trip to New York and Boston Chronicle
The narrator recounts a solo voyage from Pickens South Carolina to New York and Boston, trading advertising space for rides and rooms, meeting newspaper people and advertisers, and sampling city scenes from Hoffman House to the Pulitzer Building and Dr Munyon’s clinic, before yearning for home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pickens Sentinel
Hades
Metropolis
Jersey City
Desbrossus Street
Hoffman House
Pickens
Sentinel
South Carolina
Broad Street
Nickle
Augustine T. Smyth
Charleston
Col. A. B. Andrews
Raliegh
Mr. Russell
Russel
Julius E. Boggs
Sol. Smith Russell
Mr. Lee
Louisville
Presbyterian Church
Broadway
Seventh Street
Rand
Liberty
Pulitzer
Equitable
B. F. Hoffman
Boston
Fall River
United States
Washington
Boylston Avenue
Greenville Street
Anderson
Waldo Emerson
Daniel Webster
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Cullen Bryant
Bunker Hill Monument
Tremont Avenue
Dr. Munyon
Picken
the Sentinel