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This is an image of the Boston Daily Globe posting an article about Earp on their front page in 1896.

New York City no doubt had similar papers posting similar articles, but this was one of the clearer ones I could find from Google that weren’t just his obit, and I don’t feel like digging all that deep today. My point is: national and even global news was still a thing back then. Street urchins like Fieval could dig week old discarded papers like this out of the literal garbage and read them, provided somebody in their friend group was literate.