The Medal, The Swindler, and Little Joe
A Kentucky man named Blakewell schemes to steal a child’s silver medal from Little Joe kept by Mr. Gust. He meets the rogue jeweler Old Charley Molier who copies the medal, plots a sale, and dumps the real medal in the river to avoid detection.
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Joe
Mr. Gust
Little Joe
Blakewell
Ruthy
Aunt Ruthy
M Schief
Mr. Trust
Lower Market Street
Charley Molier
Molier
United States
Vivette
Sam Blakewell
Gray Sulphur Springs
Mr. Blakewell
Gust
Kentucky
Charley
Mas'r Sam Visits Gray Sulphur Springs Hotel
After crossing the Cincinnati ferry Sam Blakewell arrives at Gray Sulphur Springs, handing his duties to a black hostler and entering the hotel with grand authority. The Springs hotel sits on grounds with hot and cold sulphur waters, a profitable legacy for Thomas Blake known as Old Tom Blake, and includes a surrounding estate of farm and tobacco with enslaved workers.
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Cincinnati
Sam Blakewell
Gray Sulphur Springs
Sam
Springs
Thomas Blake
Tom Blake
Ward and Jaehne to Leave Sing Sing in May and October
The article recalls Ferdinand Ward’s release from Sing Sing on May 1 and notes his past as the so-called Napoleon of finance, his partners in Grant & Ward, and the 1884 collapse. It also covers ex Alderman Henry Jaehne’s nine year sentence and pending release, plus a science piece predicting Earth’s axis shift at century’s end by Lieut. C L A Totten.
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Sing Sing
Ferdinand Ward
Napoleon
Mrs. Ward
Connecticut
Ferdinand
Ward
Grant & Ward
Marine Bank
Rock of Gibraltar
Wall Street
James R. Keene
Fish
Booth
Mystic
St John
Wisencares
Teally
James D. Fish
John C. Eno
Russell Sage
Brooklyn
Grant
Fred
Ulysses, Jr
Jesse
Tappan
Sinclair
Ludlow Street
Auburn
West i Thirty-third Street
J. D. Fish
Produce Exchange
Henry W. Jaehne
Doodle Fame
Jackne
New York County
Jacbne
Jaehne
Court of Appeals
Lieut. C L. A. Totsen
U.S A
Leslie's Weekly
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Mrs. Gust
Mary
Cory Nour
Rawo, Monally
Will
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