Wolfe Crane Shoemaker Turned Boss Admits Prison Record
Robert F. Wolfe, head of Wolfe Bros Shoe Co and Columbus trust leader, reveals a twenty five year past as a convict and shoemaker in Indiana prison. He endured blackmail threats ever since, but after publishing his full story, he gains public support and continues to run a vast, profit sharing business with careful regard for workers.
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Columbus
Robert F. Wolfe
Wolfe Bros. Shoe Company
Great Shore Trust
Mr. Wolfer
Indiana
Aday
Wolfe
Coaster
Louisiana
Cottom
Texas
Hunniweil
I. T
Bob
Lonters
Lounters
Cloverdale
Spencer
John Garrard
Tiswit
Jeffersonville
Lob
Ohio
Httle
United States
Cataract
Wolfa
Ile
Polackowil
Blackmallers
Broadscast
Mme
Mr. Wolfe
Columbia University President Uses Underground Passageways
New York World profiles President Seth Low of Columbia University as a vigilant disciplinarian who covertly observes students. It describes hidden subterranean galleries connecting campus buildings, the president’s highly secure private office, and his ritual of patrolling and resolving misbehavior without direct confrontations. The piece portrays Low as democratic yet elusive, rarely seen above ground, and often arriving by bicycle before slipping through tunnels to manage the campus.
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Gow
Columbia Heights
Aon Schiool
Lew
Columbia
Low
University
Scharmerhorn
Tie
Mr. Low
Jhis
Last Survivor of Sherman Tells of the General in War
Major Woyt Sherman, last survivor of the Sherman family, recounts a Civil War incident with General William Tecumseh Sherman. He recalls a surrendering Southerner, the seized plunder, and Sherman's insistence that property belong to the United States. The tale reflects on Sherman’s justice and honesty learned from West Point days. The piece also notes Europa’s aging princes and other tidbits.
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Detroit
Frea Pre
Woyt Sherman
Sherman
Ohio
W. T. Sherman
Winston Chirehll
Lincoln
Cairo
Belmont
Columbus
Frank
Des Moines
General Sherman
Hoyt
Miltary
United States
Quarteringster
Major Sherman
West Point
The College Man in Politics Moral Tale
A graduate narrator sketches a humorous tale of a young man who lectures on reform, meets Fatty Dinkle a corruption broker, and enters politics through bribery and compromise. The father recounts a cynical path to power, ending with a moral about post graduate schooling required to master political life.
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Indiana
Cataract
Owen County
Ind
Bob
Cloverdale
John Stuart Mill
Fatty
The Story of Clare from the Paris Ball
A narrator recalls Clare a divorced mother weakened by scandal and poverty. Clare confronts memories of Chicago, her vanished mother and father, and ten failed engagements. She laments her inability to provide for her children while the ballroom clamor masks a bleak truth of estrangement and longing.
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Jerduive
Clara
America
Kelso
Kansas
M'moiselle
Clare
Chicago
Ghiengo
Paris
Europe
Good Sisters
Dooley on The Law Delays and High Courts
Mr Dooley muses on legal delays and the chase of speed in justice. He notes rush in modern life from bankers to actors and imagines a judge with patient temper while critiquing courtroom bottlenecks and delays.
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Mr. Dooley
Clark
Hinnissy
Dooley J
Dooley
High Court
Ehildher
Supreme Court
Dangerous hair dye tale sparks cautionary wit
Tit Bits reports a humorous exchange about hair dye dangers. N. Peck confirms risks, recounting an uncle who tried it and, within three months, married a widow with four children, illustrating the perils with comic exaggeration.
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N. Peck
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Dinkle
Fatty Dinkle
Stuent
F. P. Daas
Robert Honard Russell
Newnort
Ilinnissy
Manny
Ivry
Corn Belt
Matthers
Hogan
Tillygraft Op
Algernoh
Debonair
Uwageer
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