Hello everyone, I’m currently doing some research on William Schmidt, and I can’t find a digital copy of “William, King of Bartenders”, New York Press, 13 October 1889, p. 1. Do any of you perhaps have a copy and could share it with me? Among other things, it should mention that he was offered the management of the bar in the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and I’d really like to read that in the original context. Many thanks!
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As far as was able to go was to find a list of libraries that have that newspaper, not digitized, but some on microfilm.
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Here’s the article. But the one you want is the “London Letter” William sent to the New York Sun in August of that year; unfortunately, I don’t have it as printed in the Sun itself, but it was reprinted in a handful of other papers. The version in the Philadelphia Inquirer (August 5th, page 6) is the most complete I’ve found; it, too, is below.
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