Jonathan Reads Old Newspapers

March 18, 1900


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Today in history:

  • W.C. Fields makes it big, opening for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in SF.
  • Maud S., The Race Track Queen, beloved racehorse, dies at 25, having set a record 9 years earlier.
  • In the New York Tribune:

    • A full-length advertisement from Siegel & Cooper Co., including a showing of footage of Pope Leo XII (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLduvnW-FA)
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      Jonathan Reads Old NewspapersBy Jonathan Cohen