Gambler Nat Kramer Dies Aboard His Suave Legacy
A Washington Post special from Fort Worth recalls Nat Kramer, famed antebellum gambler linked with Bat Masterson and Luke Short, who died recently at seventy one. Known for gentleness and wit, he avoided violence, rigged games with care, helped the needy, and lived by clever cons without gunplay.
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Washington Post
Fort Worth
Tex
Budd Fagg
Faro Bank
Nat Kramer
Kramer
St Peter
Tabe ' Kramer
Red River
Shreveport
New Orleans
Babe Lemons
Charlie Reynolds
Jim Gatchell
Abilene
Fort Dodge
Colorado City
Amarillo
King Hoe
Bat Masterson
Luke Short
Jim Courtwright
Joe Steele
Plains Country
Dallas Fair
Dallas
Sysonby
Beldame
Dolly Gray
Krow
Salvation Army
Inside the Vaudeville Circuit Office and Stage
The October Washington dispatch tours the vaudeville circuit's back rooms where managers report weekly business and curtain calls influence. It details Mary Smith in Troy, Risquescope pictures, harp bids for Miss Russell, and the tight discipline for performers amid prop rooms, rehearsals, and fireproofing talks.
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Mary Smith
Johnnies
Troy
Mary
Russell
Gerry Sociery
Questions and Answers: Language, Law and Lighthouses
A reader questions idioms like drank milk and its French origin, the Cape Henry light’s visibility range, the meaning of colleen bawn, and Irish song terms. The page also offers trivia on naval texts, card games, coinage, harvest moons, Hessian uniforms, and legal voting rights for Chinese Americans, with expert clarifications and historical notes.
Vinegar Pie Story and Family Struggles From the West
A McClure's magazine excerpt recalls a vinegar pie with top and bottom crusts and a filling of diluted vinegar, molasses, and flour. It chronicles Uriah Kinney and Mary Ann's pioneer hardships in the Western Reserve, the mother’s sacrifice, and a memory of a beloved vinegar pie. The piece blends humor, history, and sentiment as it hones in on resilience and loss.
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McClure’s
Western Reserve
Johnny Appleseed
Uriah Kinney
Mary Ann
Uriah
Mary Ann Kinney
William
Twins
Hiram
Sophrinia Jane
Wandering bronze cents travel tale from Maine soldiers
East Orrington Maine October 7 Two 1868 minted bronze cents traveled the United States beginning with Humphrey Pinhorn and Albert George of the Twenty sixth Maine in 1863 at Port Hudson They stamped dates and passed them along through exchanges and travels across cities from Portland Bangor and Buffalo to New Orleans and San Francisco The coins resurfaced repeatedly over decades via Grand Army posts farmers traders and a seed man in Detroit Their owners sought quiet disposal while public notices and newspaper retellings spread the curious saga ending with a Bangor move and a final reunion in 1903 amid a plan to invest in a library for East Orrington
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Harps
Newark
Lillian
Harp
Gertrude Coghlan
Saya
Dog
Becky Sharp
Becky
Holland
Russell
East Orriington
Maine
Port Hudson
Humphrey Pinhorn
Alpert George
Port Hudeom
East Orrington
George
Portland
Pangor
Coirs
Pinhorn
H. P
San Francisco
Grand Army
Bucksport
Firhwin
Westbrook
Dover
Pedler
Mr. Pinhorn
Detroit
Mich
St Louis
Finhorn
Worcester
Mass
Bangor
Holden
Buffalo
New Orleans
Hving
Natick
Godipes
Grover Cleveland
The
United States
Boston
Orrington
Nopile
Ala
Del
Washington
East Grrington
Mr. George
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Jam Courtright
the Plains
Weg
New York
Smi Reat
Bernard Shaw
Mney
Apple Sisters
Kate
Guy
Spaghetti
Lillian Russell Redalls
Christian Science
London
Gablet
Reich
Larousse
Cape Henry
Daniels
Exrch
Cant. Daniels
Colleen Bawn
Henry J Meterling
Colleen
Bawn
Hily O’con
Gerald Griffin
the Collegians
Dion Boucicault
Adelphi
Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy
Thompson
Hoyle
Thea
EK. B. Branko
Elmhurst
L. L
Ford
Jana
A. J. Deming
Lossing
James Lippincott
Jacquemin
Falke ‘‘Kostumgeschichte der
Kulturvoelker
J. J. WL. Plesas Atate
William A. Smylie
Plunkitt
Benetorial
Cheleea
John M. Benson
Congress
Yellowstons
Yosemite
Brotherhood
Fowler
Dick Turpin
William J. Mills
Planche
Hill
Fairholt
England
Thornton J. Theall
Ke O
George Felian
Wong Kim Ark
Supreme Court
Frederick Schoff
National Mothers’ Congress
Snd
Utah
East Lake City
Jane
Papa
Cleopatra
Samkel
Port Hudzon
Gate of
Ohio
City of Toledo
Lucas
Frank J. Cheney
F. I.cherey & Co
Toledo
Hall
Ald
Seal
A. W.gleason
Jais
Cobyey
E. Tole
All Drug
Hruhives
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