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Title:
The gridiron. : (Boston [Mass.]) 1854-18??
Alternative Titles:
  • Grid iron
  • Gridiron and original know nothing <Oct. 1854>
  • Gridiron and precedence
Place of publication:
Boston [Mass.]
Geographic coverage:
  • Washington, District of Columbia  |  View more titles from this: City State
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
  • Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
Publisher:
Daniel Pratt, Jr.
Dates of publication:
1854-18??
Description:
  • Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 14, 1854)-
Frequency:
Weekly
Language:
  • English
Notes:
  • Daniel Pratt, Jr., who also called himself the Great American Traveler, was incurably demented. His chief delusion was that he had been elected to the presidency and was being kept out of office by a coalition of unscrupulous rivals. Cf. Dict. of Amer. biog.
  • Published in Prattville [Chelsea] and Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1854; in Boston, Prattville [Chelsea] & Washington, D.C., Nov. 11, 1854; v. 1, no. 6 published as: The gridiron and precedence in Prattville [Chelsea], Boston and Washington in 1856; v. 8, no. 8,800 published as: Grid iron in the United States of America [Brooklyn, N.Y.] in 1864.
LCCN:
sn 85025765
OCLC:
11893840
Holdings:
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