Opportunity and a half dollar founded a million dollar firm
A narrated tale from the New York Sun recounts two travelers who start with 50 cents. One accepts early menial work, later rises to head salesman and partnership in a leading midwestern wholesale house, eventually worth about a million and a half. The other rejects chances and remains jobless in New York.
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Prouer
Aew
Mort
Avarm
Middle West
New York
Potter's Field
New York Sun
His Third Marriage Shows Superstition in Burma Tale
An inhabitant of Badaon in upper Burma faced a superstition about a third marriage. When warned that a third wife would die soon, he wed a doll to satisfy the omen, announced her death, buried her, and then married his fourth wife.
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Lahore
Badaon
Upper Burma
A Dry Bath Joke From London Answerer
A Scottish man follows advice to make a shower bath using a cistern and colander. He reports the bath as fine and “rare weel” and claims he stayed dry by not standing under the water without an umbrella.
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Sandy
London
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Delbert
M. C. Kiser CO
Atlanta
Ee Millan Ghgs
Erice and
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Savannah
BH. Levy
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C. A. Helton
Crokest
Fresh
Eagle Saloon
North Broad St
J. H. Powell
M. E. O’neal
E. J. Morgan
Bainbridge Ga
Willis Drug Store
Talbert
J. W
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Bainbridge and Brinson
Donalson & Donalson
Shingler Building
Wallace D. Sheffield
Bainbridge Gn
Hamill
J. A. Neely
Clark and
Broughton Streets
Nadindla
Jong
Leach
Rog
National Toilet Company
Paris
Piedmont Hotel
Harvey & Wood
Piedmont
Boston
Castory
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Cypress Lumber
Apalachicola, Florida
Waterman & Company
Brinbridge
Ceorcia
Sale & Exchange
Feec Ie Sale Stable
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Jack
G. B. Brace
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