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Surprising Brooklyn Purchase Stirs Domestic Tension
Alphonse Michelson returns home to a expectant wife and a restless plan. In seconds a rain soaked scene unfolds as Mil tries to hide a secret while Gertie Dobriner presses for a hurried baby carriage deal in a dim street trade.
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Gert
Eighty-sixth Street
Brooklyn Express
Phonzie
Marcel
Subway
Carson City
Alphonse Michelson
Millie Moores
Millie
van Ness
Ida May
Twenty-third Street
Dindin
Eddie
Ritz
van Norder
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Mil
Ida May’s
Gertie Dobriner
Madam Moores
Miss Dobriner