Nimrod Odlin's ill starred race for love and money
Nimrod Odlin pursues Flora Forsyth with twenty thousand dollars in mind, then Beatrix Tavistock arrives with equal fortune prospects. After a string of proposals and witty derisions, Flora deceives him by a quick superb reveal, exposing his crestfallen return to the street in a humoring misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nimrod Odlin
Artemus
Nimrod
Jong
Nim
Flora Forsyth
Nim Odlin
Flora
Cain
Odlin
Mr. Odlin
Beatrix
Rix
Hephzibah
Beatrix Tavistock
Miss Tavistock
Miss Beatrix
William
Baltimore American
Fragmented Humorous Vignettes From Early 1900s Papers
A collage of short satirical items from old newspapers. It alludes to a New York Hebrew suitor and a 517 pound bride at a museum, a Cincinnati heiress pursuit, an oyster with a trunk, a lightning strike in Ohio, a late arrival at a Georgia home, Red Clover tonic claims, Buffalo oil broker disappearance with horse-race pun, a boarding house alligator, a Philadelphia lawyer’s view of misfit marriages, and various product placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Frederick City
Washington City
Washington
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Catoctin
Linganore Hills
Frederick
Francis Scott Key
Mary Taylor Key
Key
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
New York
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New York Journal
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Shiloh
BK RR
Lark
Cincinnati
America
Detroit Free Press
Norr. Herald
Ohio
John
Boston Globe
Georgia Major
Dr. Jones
S. R. Lash
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
N. O. Times Democrat
Louise
Charles
Philadelphia
Alyuses
E.R. Lash
Brown
Hood
Foutz
Foutz Am
Aea
Fouts
David E. Foutz
Baltimore
Sagt
Uae
Qlamuel
Knowles
DD. L. Sleeper
Chas. Townsend
Orm Db & Sleeper
LAW
Athens
Onto
Naitly I
Wren & Welch, Attorneys AT Law
Ono
Southeastern
Osio
Supreme
U.S
Joan Welch
Welch
J.M. Welch
Ornell
Southeast Cor
Washington & Congress
John Cornell
John Ring
Bus Tyson
Guysville
Athens County
W. Towsley
Atkinson
Warren House
Suank
State Street
A. Dille
Atilens
D. J.E. Edmundson
Main Street
E. R. Lash
Phoenix Block
George R. Walker
Court House
D. C. Cornwell
Clocks & Jewelry and
le Marethist
Walnut Street
Walnut St
Bet
Occasio
Oakes & Lodwick
The
Academy of
E. M. Truex
Pearl St
North High St
Columbus, Ohio
Fisher, the Tailor
Wausot Sr
BANKS
NonTos
M. Weicn
First National Bank
Mooks
Athens, Ohid
State Bank of
Ohid
United States
Europe
the Bank OF Athens
J.D. Brown
Cashier
Magnetic Medicine Co
Detroit
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