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  2. Bummer and Lazarus - Wikipedia

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    Lazarus was killed in October 1863. In the San Francisco Kaleidoscope, Dickson claimed he was kicked by the horse of one of the city's fire engines, [5] but contemporary accounts say he was poisoned by being given meat laced with "ratbane" after biting a boy. [citation needed] San Franciscans put up a $50 reward for the capture of the poisoner ...

  3. Fake Tales of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    In Fake Tales of San Francisco Alex's lyrics sound much older than an 18-year-old, the lyrics display a much wiser and sadder tone. There is a dry sorrow feel to the lyrics, especially when love is compared to be blind and deaf as well.

  4. James Kelly (crimper) - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Dickson, "Shanghai Kelly", Tales of San Francisco Stanford: University Press, 1957. Bill Pickelhaupt, "Shanghaied in San Francisco," San Francisco: Flyblister Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9647312-2-3 "Mission to Seafarers Timeline Alongside World Events". Mission to Seafarers. Archived from the original on September 16, 2007

  5. Samuel Dickson - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Dickson (Australian politician) (1866–1955), member of the South Australian House of Assembly; Samuel J. Dickson (1867–1964), chief of the Toronto Police Department; Samuel Dickson (died 1850), Member of the UK Parliament for County Limerick, 1849–1850; Samuel Auchmuty Dickson (1817–1870), Member of the UK Parliament for County ...

  6. Armistead Maupin - Wikipedia

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    Tales of the City is a series of novels, the first portions of which were published initially as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974, in a Marin County newspaper, The Pacific Sun, picked up in 1976 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and later reworked into the series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper and Row).

  7. Tales of the City - Wikipedia

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    Tales of the City is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBTQ. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization , with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San ...

  8. List of San Francisco Bay Area writers - Wikipedia

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    Gray Brechin (September 2, 1947 – ), "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin" Genea Brice, poet laureate of Vallejo, California; Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926), How Plants are Trained to Work for Man

  9. Adolph Sutro - Wikipedia

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    Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was a German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist who served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897.