Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
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Chapters (226)
- CHAPTER I
- When I Was at School
- Some of My Boyhood Friends
- Getting to Work.
- The Rod Was Never Spared
- A Cub Reporter
- Other Adventures in Employment
- Put Off the First Train
- CHAPTER II
- I Own a Race Horse
- A Sailor Bold
- Stories of Pets
- Poetry—and Me
- An Exaggerated Report
- A Brief Summary
- CHAPTER III
- The Live Wires of the Seventies
- The Rivalry Between Smith and Schultz
- The Political Leaders
- I Strike Winnipeg
- Something About Hotels
- The Trials of a Reporter
- Not Exactly an Angelic City
- The First Iron Horse
- The Pembina Branch
- Lord Strathcona—and Profanity
- The Republic of Manitoba
- The Plot to Secede
- CHAPTER IV
- Winnipeg the Wicked
- Interviewing a Murderer
- Schofield’s Escapade
- An Express Robbery
- The Case of Lord Gordon-Gordon
- The Farr Case
- Some Prominent Old-Timers
- The Inside Story of a Deal
- Real Trouble Arises
- Always Have Proof
- Winnipeg Doctors Play Practical Jokes
- A Big Scandal
- Donald McEwan and the Waiter
- Mistaken Identity
- CHAPTER V
- An Adventure With Colonel Denison
- The Riel Rebellion
- Middleton and the Queen
- Selected for Dangerous Mission
- Lost on the Trail
- A Naval Battle in the West
- Rescuing the Maclean Family
- A Church Parade in the Wilderness
- Indian Signals
- Some Curious Indian Names.
- CHAPTER VI
- The Highland Laddie.
- The Kindness of Princess Louise.
- The Marquis of Lansdowne.
- Talking to Aberdeen
- A Great Horseman.
- Earl Grey.
- The Grand Old Duke.
- The Duke of Devonshire.
- CHAPTER VII
- Intrepid Scotch Voyageurs.
- The Tale of a Cat.
- Indian Humor and Imagery
- CHAPTER VIII
- Hon. Frank Oliver and Yours Truly.
- When Sir Wilfrid Didn’t Blush.
- A Scotch Banquet.
- Banquets in Winnipeg.
- Bouquets and Brick-Bats and Democracy.
- Mayor Hylan and the Queen
- CHAPTER IX
- Adventures in the Occult.
- ”Getting the Dope” on the “Prof.”
- Telepathy and Fortune Telling.
- Story of the Haunted House.
- CHAPTER X
- Mark and the “High-brows.”
- The Human Cash Register.
- My Old Friend, the Chicago Cub Reporter.
- Several Gory Sequences.
- Stead and Hinky Dink.
- CHAPTER XI
- With “Kit” in St. Louis.
- The Mormons.
- CHAPTER XII
- The Leader’s Drill Shed Story.
- When “Three Pair” Won.
- The Toronto Press.
- The Markham Gang.
- Comic and Other Papers.
- Toronto’s Chief Magistrates.
- ”Ned”—Hon. Edward Farrer.
- Theatrical Recollections.
- Bonifaces of the Old Days.
- CHAPTER XIII
- Col. Irvine’s Services Against Riel.
- Treating With Sitting Bull.
- The Why of the Scarlet Tunic.
- Western Justice As It Was.
- Passing Death Sentence on a Nuisance.
- Grand Old John Kirkup.
- A Lethbridge Pirate.
- The Mounted Police To-Day.
- CHAPTER XIV
- A Really “Substantial” Breakfast.
- An Afternoon of Gloom.
- To be “Queen of the May”
- Down in Washington
- Case of “Much Wants More”
- Some Anecdotes
- Canadian Club
- CHAPTER XV
- Pawn All But Christmas Stockings.
- Everybody Should Believe in Christmas.
- CHAPTER XVI
- A Man Who Mastered Self.
- Youth With Strange Power.
- All Faiths Among Patrons.
- CHAPTER XVII
- Political Tragedies.
- A Wit-Provoking Stairway.
- The Old War Horse From Cumberland.
- Sir John’s Trusted Lieutenant.
- Laurier’s Magnetic Personality.
- Two Tom Whites.
- A Few Veterans.
- The Jims.
- A Soured Senator
- Familiar Faces in the Old Days.
- The Social Side of the House.
- Not Good Mixers.
- When Hansard “Mixed” Metaphors.
- Some of the Other Good Fellows.
- Some Well-known Members.
- Appointing a Governor.
- The Wrong Hat.
- A Telephone for Each Language.
- CHAPTER XVIII
- Big Undertaking, Broad Policy.
- Conspicuously Canadian.
- The First President.
- A Temporary President.
- Sir William Van Horne.
- He Helped Make History.
- A Well Informed Porter.
- Early Advertising.
- His Work in Cuba.
- Lord Shaughnessy.
- Lord Shaughnessy’s Big Heart.
- He Eschewed Public Honors.
- His Repartee Like Rapier Thrust.
- Hats Off to the Chief.
- The Present President.
- His Father a Transportation Pioneer.
- David McNicoll of the Old Guard.
- Vice-President Ogden.
- My “Fidus Achates.”
- Floored James Oborne.
- Haunted by Presentiment.
- Captains Courageous.
- Masters of the Inland Seas.
- The Active Men of To-day.
- Some of the Western Men.
- Prominent Passenger Men.
- The Train Staff.
- The Advertising Men.
- The Ocean Service.
- On the Retired List.
- Politics Interfere With Business.
- Company Never Evicted a Settler.
- Other Old-Timers.
- Some Who Have Passed Away.
- Some Reminiscences.
- Others Gone But Still Remembered.
- Medical Staff.
- Officials Honored by King.
- The Dominion Express Company.
- The Live Wires.
- Important “First” Trains.
- Greeted Train With Music.
- A Belated Prosperity.
- An Old-Time Roadmaster.
- When Coal Was Costly.
- Gate-Keeper, I Hope, in Both Worlds.
- Don’t Own the Alphabet.
- Flour for Lady Macdonald.
- Good-bye, My Reader, Good-bye.
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