Rival turf legends Riley Grannan and Pittsburg Phil tied by bets
The article recalls Riley Grannan and Pittsburg Phil, two turf figures in Rawhide Nevada, famed for different betting styles. Phil relied on deep knowledge of horses and jockeys, while Grannan trusted bold, intuition driven gambles and near clairvoyant hunches. Their friendship endured until Grannan’s decline and Phil’s struggles, ending with Grannan’s death in Rawhide.
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Pittsburg
Phil
Rawhide
Nev
Phils
Pittier
Henry
Navarre
Dieniio
Henney
Navaurre
Henry of Navarre
New York
Wien Tenry
Cranrans
Riley
Cope
Grannan
Philome da Bome
Hank
Ius
Grannans
Traveling with Jarkins on a Steamship
A traveler recounts a coast liner voyage with his partner Mr Jarkins. They roomed together, shared meals, and started early with cocktails. The pair, hungry after stops, ate a full breakfast at Cape Charles and left a tip, claiming the trip was worth the cost despite the crowded quarters.
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Jarkins
Dickens
Larry Gamps
Mrs Harris
Ais
Alorg
Lm Gong
Jersey
Cape Charles
George
Comic flag mixup sparks armed landing scare in Port au Prince
In Port au Prince and nearby Gonaives a humorous incident accompanies Haiti unrest. Consul J Willian Woel explained a signal mishap with an inverted Eagle ensign triggered a near landing of Eagle, Paducah, and Destrees crews. British, American, and French sailors rushed ashore ready to act, then relaxed when the telegram was delivered.
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Gonaives
Paducah
Port Aud Prince
Tropics
Wales
Santo Domingo
Port Au Prince
Anton Firmin
United States
J Willian Woel
Harti
Masachusetts Jhis
Eagle
Guantanamo
Seigo
Woel
Consul
Weel
Gonerves
Eugles
Fromtman
United State
Veskle
California Swaps Drinks Old San Francisco Grog
From Telegraph Hill to Barbary Coast and Kearny Street, old San Francisco sold cheap wine and mescal in dim groggeries. Wine tapers sipped quart bottles while mescal fended off reformers, fueling late night quarrels and ledgers of vice along Portsmouth Square near Stevenson’s monument. A Kansas City Journal report notes a guilty plea amid this foggy era of illicit spirits and urban decay.
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San Francisco
Barbary
Chinatown
Kearny Street
Telesgraph Hill
California
Portsmouth Square
Stevenson
The
Kansas City Journal
Gifts of Grateful Patients and Odd Tales From a Washington Doctor
A prominent Washington physician recalls grateful patient gifts from Afghan mufflers to silver flasks and handkerchiefs marked with D for doctor. Anecdotes include a Yale education delay, a mysterious January gift chain, and a tale of misread directions leading to a fatal harm.
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Metropolitan Club
Yale
Express
Tiffany S
Domimie
China
New England
Mississippi
Hughes Is the Second Choice Of Every Candidate's Supporters
James B Morrow recounts political campaigning memories from 1875 to 1908, including Abraham Lincoln rejecting a Nebraska judgeship offer, Woodford's reflections on Lincoln, and encounters with notable figures like Frye Harrison Garfield and McKinley. A vivid anecdote from New Orleans 1875 describes starker crowd hostility and the speaker's counterstrategy.
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Hughes
John Cabell Breckinridge
United States
Washington
Jon Ing
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln
Woodford
New York
Nebraska
William Pitt Fessenden
Maine
Capen
Fessenden
Thos City
Ingsoll
Benjamin Harrison
Garfield
McKinley
William P Frye
Pacific Coast
New Orleans
Zachary Taylors
Ike
Ben Butler
TAPAW'S WAR SHIP MYSTERY AND MIKASA SINKING
A lengthy, sensational chronicle claims the Mikasa was raised and restored to service after sinking in Sasebo harbor in 1965 amid Tokyo rioting. It details conflicting Japanese accounts, censorship, and a Shanghai Times revelation about a guest at a Tokyo geisha dinner who allegedly disclosed the true cause.
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Oriéntil
Sagebo Harbor
Egos
Tokyo
Portsmouth
Kobe
Yokohama
Nagoya
Osaka
Kuropatkin
Stoessel
Linevitch
Sasebo
Mihasa
Shanghai Times
Tosos
Japan
Togo
Roosevelt
Hasebo
Arisugawa
Mikasa
Shanghai
Japanese Governent
Vikasa
Official Information Bureau
War Department
Sianghai
Imperial Hotel
Lohye
Oriental Palace Hotel
Hatoba
Hi Shadow
Pennylope's Flirtatious Night on the Sixth Avenue Train
In Brooklyn a lively drill and celebration on a Sixth Avenue train scene centers on Pennylope, her soldier suitor, and her brother Jake. The party devolves into flirtation jokes, social posturing, and a dramatic clash as Pennylope rebukes Jake before the train travels toward Grand Street, amid overheard chatter about manners and romance.
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Brooklyn
Sixth Avenue
Park Place
Frst
United States Ee
Penny-lope
Jake
Penny Lope
Pennylope
Capt Smatter
Sergi Spindle
Smart
Jayenee
Maries
Bill
Penny
Jakes
Martle
Crossing the Bay of Fundy voyage reads like saga and storm
A fragmented and literary travelogue passage depicts a perilous sea crossing from Dabs to Calais amid gales and roaring tides. It mingles vivid nautical detail, distant locations, and a claustrophobic, eerie voyage mood with oblique references to ships, crews, and the treacherous seaway.
Young Medic Indignant Sparks Medical Exam Debate
A heated dispute erupts over exam questions at a New York hospital training session. Students challenge the relevance of a bizarre cabbage question as part of the test while others defend its use to probe critical thinking and knowledge application in medical education.
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New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Carter and
Betlesve
Seb
Willamsburg
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