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Letters.
ColoradoBiz
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October 1, 2002
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speaking up for Colfax's no-man's land
Your August article, "Reclaiming Colfax," left out a necessary component of Denver's main Street revival: reintegrating residents of NeCo (Near Colfax) with their surrounding neighborhoods. Organized districts like Capitol Hill and Mayfair tend to ignore the no-man's land between 14th and 16th avenues. I live in Park Hill geographically but not socially. Would I be better integrated if my house number were 1620 instead of 1520?
Eric Beteille, Denver
Putting Out a PR fire
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Humor+ a generation= yawn; Lampoon alum's quick, quirky insights make the once-radically funny Woody Allen seem to plod
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...changes, the idea of what is funny changes with it. The crackerbarrel comics of the 19th century -- Artemus Ward, Petroleum V. Nasby, Bill Nye -- slumber in utter obscurity, their aw-shucks dialect tales as unfathomable as hieroglyphics. Even...
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 "Blade (Toledo, OH)")
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Residents work to revive north-end neighborhood.
Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH)
; ...1870s, Mr. Twain and David Ross Locke, Toledo Blade editor and part-owner, nationally known by his pen name, Petroleum V. Nasby, were in high demand on the lecture circuit across the country. White's Hall has long since fallen under urban...
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Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic
; ...Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Dickinson, David Ross Locke ( Petroleum V. Nasby ), and Mark Twain. Adding musicians, illusionists, and acting companies, Redpath became one of the nation...
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The Last Laugh?(Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...actions. He even takes us all the way back to two of Abe Lincoln's favorites, Artemus Ward (pseudo-satire) and Petroleum V. Nasby (genuine satire). As an ex-comedian, Peterson certainly knows comedy. And his analysis is often spot-on...
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Salem pub serves up atypical, affordable fare
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...an expression meaning "you're putting me on." According to the menu, the phrase was coined in 1876 by one Petroleum V. Nasby. Sure it was.) The room - brick walls, an old tin ceiling painted barn-red, smallish tables packed close...
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Faircom Closes Acquisition of WSWR-FM, Shelby, Ohio; Promotes Mansfield General Manager.
Business Wire
; ...radio station WSWR-FM, Shelby, Ohio, by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Faircom Mansfield Inc., from The Petroleum V. Nasby Corporation was consummated on Jan. 21, 1998. The purchase price was $1,125,000 in cash. The Crisler Company...
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