October 15 Saturday – The Illustrated News of the World (New York issue) ran a second segment of “The German Chicago.” Other segments ran on Oct. 8 and Nov. 5, 1892 [Willson list, Univ. of Texas at Austin].

Tom F. McBeath for Bartow Graded Public School, Bartow, Fla. wrote to Sam asking for some “good inexpensive book, with your name on the fly leaf” for the school’s library. McBeath wrote on the side of the facsimile form letter a short note that he had “the honor of being a very distant relation” [MTP].