A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.

Ordinarily a man named O’Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn ...

Number 462 Genesee Street today. (c) Google. But back to Number 462 Genesee. Saloonkeeper John Marx Sr. died in 1899, and his son John Jr. turned the building into a grocery and hardware store ...

Trampas is helped by a dog.

and there don’t appear to be any surviving records. Joseph C. Dawson, an Irish saloonkeeper, bought it in 1917. Two years later, help wanted ads in local newspapers described the property as a “new ...

He churned them out three times a week ending on January 10, 2025 with this final column. Some were just fun and lively sketches of Baltimore characters, like his Fells Point muse, saloonkeeper ...

As the Los Angeles Times wrote in 2001: “Ford was the son of an Irish immigrant saloonkeeper and Democratic Party boss in Portland, Maine.” “During the Irish War of Independence in 1921 ...

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's ...

and there don’t appear to be any surviving records. Joseph C. Dawson, an Irish saloonkeeper, bought it in 1917. Two years later, help wanted ads in local newspapers described the property as a ...

That, of course, was the reaction of millions of people—notably including a balding saloonkeeper, Jack Ruby. “Those poor kids,” he moaned when he heard the news. The Busybody. Ruby was ...