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Title: Billboard (Jul-Dec 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Billboard Advertising Co.
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : R.S. Littleford, Jr., W.D. Littleford
Contributing Library: Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
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ies in the war of the Re-bellion. Dan Rice organized a steam-boat circus, and set out via the Mis-sissippi River to make a winter rivertour of the South. As he was ear-nestly warned, the unsettled conditionand temper of that section made theventure a most hazardous and dan- vest as soon as he crossed Dixies line.That he was not assassinated seemeda miraculous confirmation of the as-sertion that the bullet never wasmoulded that would find a mark inhim. For example, while he was tak-ing tickets at the door of his show inGrenada, Miss., a drunken loafer firedat him, point blank, with a big re-volver, the ball passing through hiscoat. Dan never turned so much asa hair, and eooly remarked: Oh, putthat up; were used to that sort ofthing here. Tickets! Tickets! By G d. Rice, youre too brave a man to kill, replied his assailant, and thenhe lurched off. gun in hand. And soit went from day to day, the troubleincreasing, and Dan indomitably fac-ing it with his square jaw biit themore firmly set.
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