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Newspaper item
Daily Globe (St.Paul, MN), March 16, 1882, p.3

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Newspaper article and interview
Minneapolis Tribune, March 16, 1882
OSCAR WILDE.
Arrival of this Much-Talked-of Young Man in this City Yesterday Afternoon
He Tells a Small Audience in the Evening what he knows about Decorative Art
AN “ASS-THETE”
Oscar Wilde, “the apostle of beauty,” and the most talked about young man of the day, arrived in Minneapolis from Chicago yesterday afternoon and registered at the Nicollet.