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. H. H. Bonnell ALS to "Mountaineers at Laurel Run" [Paul Oliver, Jr., et al.?]; s.l., 1886 July 10

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Abstract:
H. H. and Harry just returned from Coney Island, where they saw "Texas siftings", Grover Cleveland and wife, and the Queen of Sheba. "There was an attempt at robbery here the other night in which the officer was almost clubbed to death but was kept from dyeing by frequent applications of bad rum & ginger ale." Travel from Laurel Run by rail and bus. Anecdote about the dragging of a black man across the station and apparently struck on the ear, "there is a general set to in which two coats are badly torn & the quiet is restored." A spectator told the man "he had better skip by the light of the moon for he is in great danger of being pulled." Disparaging racist epithet.
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