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	'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[~~Pine Ridge Cemetery\|~~Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."		'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."
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	'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine~~%20Ridge%20Cemetery~~\|Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."		'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine Ridge Cemetery\|Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."
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	. . . According to his death notice in the New York Times, he started as a circus acrobat, and later became a singer and dancer. After that, he was a theatrical agent and manager who later in his career “worked with motion pictures and produced a number of shows,” though what kind of shows it didn’t say.		. . . According to his death notice in the New York Times, he started as a circus acrobat, and later became a singer and dancer. After that, he was a theatrical agent and manager who later in his career “worked with motion pictures and produced a number of shows,” though what kind of shows it didn’t say.

	He died in 1926 in the [[Northwoods~~%20Sanitarium~~\|Northwoods Sanitarium]] in Saranac Lake. . . .		He died in 1926 in the [[Northwoods Sanitarium\|Northwoods Sanitarium]] in Saranac Lake. . . .
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	'''~~<span style="">~~"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine%20Ridge%20Cemetery\|Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."		'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine%20Ridge%20Cemetery\|Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."
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	''Adirondack Daily Enterprise''~~<span style="">~~, April 24, 2015		''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', April 24, 2015

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	. . . [A researcher found] 30 articles on Smiling Joe, including an obituary in Variety. Apparently, ~~<span style="">Smiling~~ Joe was not just an agent -- he also had controlling interest in theaters and outside of New York City was involved in show business in Pittsburgh, Chicago and other big cities. He was, in short, a big shot. . . .		. . . [A researcher found] 30 articles on Smiling Joe, including an obituary in Variety. Apparently, Smiling Joe was not just an agent -- he also had controlling interest in theaters and outside of New York City was involved in show business in Pittsburgh, Chicago and other big cities. He was, in short, a big shot. . . .

	. . . Smiling Joe came here in 1925 to recover from TB, and he died in 1926. According to his obit, he had no family. So I always assumed there's no one in town who ever heard of him, much less actually remembered him. Nonetheless, someone keeps putting pebbles on his gravestone. . . .		. . . Smiling Joe came here in 1925 to recover from TB, and he died in 1926. According to his obit, he had no family. So I always assumed there's no one in town who ever heard of him, much less actually remembered him. Nonetheless, someone keeps putting pebbles on his gravestone. . . .

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'''Born:''' 1869

'''Died:''' 1926

'''"Smiling Joe" Conoly''' was a New York city theatrical agent who died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis. He is buried in [[Pine%20Ridge%20Cemetery|Pine Ridge Cemetery]], under a stone marked "Smiling Joe."
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''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', April 24, 2015

'''Smiling Time'''

By Bob Seidenstein

. . . According to his death notice in the New York Times, he started as a circus acrobat, and later became a singer and dancer. After that, he was a theatrical agent and manager who later in his career “worked with motion pictures and produced a number of shows,” though what kind of shows it didn’t say.

He died in 1926 in the [[Northwoods%20Sanitarium|Northwoods Sanitarium]] in Saranac Lake. . . .
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''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', May 1, 2015

'''Matters of grave importance'''

By Bob Seidenstein

. . . [A researcher found] 30 articles on Smiling Joe, including an obituary in Variety. Apparently, Smiling Joe was not just an agent -- he also had controlling interest in theaters and outside of New York City was involved in show business in Pittsburgh, Chicago and other big cities. He was, in short, a big shot. . . .

. . . Smiling Joe came here in 1925 to recover from TB, and he died in 1926. According to his obit, he had no family. So I always assumed there's no one in town who ever heard of him, much less actually remembered him. Nonetheless, someone keeps putting pebbles on his gravestone. . . .