Word: peddler
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...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...
...Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
...Louisville, a newspaper reporter discovered a 14-year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...
...vehicle which won the laurel of the amateur Thespians' Olympic was Judge Lynch, by one William R. Rogers, Jr., said to be "the Euripides of Texas." It was an indictment of the hasty judgments on which lynchings are founded in the South, and although it represented a Yankee peddler as a thief, it stirred a Northern audience so deeply that the tournament management had to keep the curtain down to make them go home. The cast consisted of Julia Hogan, Louise Bond, Joe Peel and Louis Quince (who appropriately played a sour countryman...