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Chatterbox Album of Animals, 1880
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Chatterbox Album of Animals, 1880
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The Citizen, Howard, Kansas, June 23, 1880
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Tittums & Fido, published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880
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Chatterbox Album of Animals, 1880
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Tittums & Fido, published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880
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Chatterbox Album of Animals, 1880
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Chanute Blade, Kansas, April 23, 1885
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A handbill showcasing American Jack, the Frog Man, 1888
from the Wellcome Museum
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St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, Missouri, May 22, 1883
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Harper County Times, Kansas, September 1, 1881
I was halfway through reading an article about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde doing it, and was like, “that’s quite a bit from so little to go on..”
But then I went looking for contemporary accounts of the meeting, and it looks like somebody then decided to write a little fanfic about it, so nevermind!
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1882

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The Young Men of America: A Sparkling Journal for Young Ladies and Gentleman, November 11, 1887
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How to Do It: Or, The Art of Fascinating the Opposite Sex, by a Gentleman (Now Married), 1885
Ally Sloper’s Summer Number, 1886
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The Little Lunatic quarterly, Farmington, Maine, August 20, 1880