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Near Wilkes Barre, Pa., one Joseph Nowanick, coal miner, angled for fish in Brohead Creek, fished up a diamond-ring. He learned it had been lost by a Mrs. Joseph Brown of Manhattan and was worth $1,700. Honest, Miner Nowanick sent the ring home. Grateful, Mrs. Brown offered a...
"Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House...
Her phrases were most original. To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them...
One December evening through which the 19th Century was creeping at last to its grave, a silver-haired gentleman of broken but distinguished appearance made his way from the Grand Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his...
After he left Enid, Bates spent $50,000 collecting evidence and affidavits to substantiate this proof. He published The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, This is that book enlarged; romanticized by the keen, sympathetic author of The Soul of Ann Rutledge and The Soul of Abe Lincoln.