Scandal and romance unfold in a great city boarding house
In a fashionable hotel setting, Mrs Leeds arouses gossip as a mysterious married woman and her encounters with General Lane illuminate envy loyalty and scandal. The tale follows secret meetings, a brutal confrontation, and a dramatic winter marriage that ends in quiet triumph over public judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ong
Jane
Clara
Miss
Chua Wilbur
Strat
Bradley
Mary
Tle
Leeds
Clara Wilbur
Mrs. Leeds
Lane
Charlie
Wives for sale and a pious apple prank in stray tales
A merchant in Hong Kong is offered seven thousand dollars for his wife by a Mandarin who insists on a businesslike bargain. The tale is joined by a Hartford Times anecdote about Pat Malone fined for assault and a New Jersey family’s apple-tossing trick to keep a sermon awake, with Beuregard and a Hot Springs joke closing the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hongkong
China
Hartford Times
Pat Malone
Mike Sweeney
Gate of Heaven
St. Peter
Pii
Lil
Hell
New‘ark
N.J
A Confirmed Grumbler of Edin burgh
A well known grumbler Seas by black in Edinburgh irritably quarrels over meals. He rejects boiled and roast chicken, demands perfection, objects to peas and purchases, then storms out as his wife calmly handles the dinner sequence amid amused friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie
Harry
Mr. Leeds
Caroori
Hany Leeds
Mr Sloan
Sity
John
Bridget
General Lane
Charles Sloan
Leeds
Charlie Sloan
Lovelace Canterbury
Vic
Charlie
Carrie Leeds
Leyday
oWell Jane
Shakspeare
New Place
Hugh Clopton
Hugh Clapton
Honse
Francis
Tie
Edinburgh
Seas By
Black
Sandy Rose
Rosster
Sandy
Mrs. Black
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Wexelt
Exiday Mornang
Guulenog
Ataris
Beaver Daw
Dodge Co
Wis
Ceatis
Timi Gm
Fei
Beaver Dam
Mere
Gilyean
Stevens Hocus Tepes
Fear Larrabee
Ising
Kuta
Amos
Beckers
Decker
Naren Be
H. Bushnell
Busantle
Burcbard & Curtis
Bie See Dam
Dodge County
Wisconsin
H. W. Curtis
Livery and Sale Stable
N. Justice
Tare Imciimstry’t New Millinery Goods
BS. McKinstry
Toe
Theampton
Seaver Dam
Beaver Dam Argus
BY Daisy BH
Lace Canterbury
Sister Mine
Avou
Charles
Vic Canterbury
Brother Offeer
Mrs . Leeds
Dimyer
Ho Gbe
Eugenie
Paris
Japan
Tyler
Charles City Court House
John Tyler
Santa Anna‘s
Joan Trier
Wistrenp Saorr
Hartford
Greenwood Co’s. Mills
Farmington River
Ting
Boston
Jefferson Davia
Cedar County
Iowa
Retel
Beauregard
Great Britain
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