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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
2
Narrator recalls Granville Gough a cosmopolitan adventurer with a vast network of friends from princes to beggars. The tale blends affection and intrigue as Gough’s magnetic power and moral complexity surface amidst a life of travel and deception across Europe. The narrator explains personal ties and a recent year of cosmopolitan wandering.
The narrator learns his aunt lies gravely ill in Worthing and travels to visit her. On the train he shares a compartment with a well dressed, middle aged, dark bearded man who is a seasoned traveler and claims constant travel. The man praises England despite cosmopolitan ties.
In transit from Worthing to Victoria, Philip Ralston rides with a stranger who claims deep knowledge of his cosmopolitan past. The man, using a false name, presses questions about Bucharest, Hotel Boulevard, and Granville Gough, hinting at danger and a hidden agenda. The exchange ends with appeals to trust and a promise to continue.
Common to good native steers sold at 4.85 to 6.35 per 100 lbs. oxen and stags 3.75 to 6.65, bulls 3 to 4, cows 1.40 to 4.25. Dressed beef 10 percent. Veals 6.50 to 10 per 100 lbs with a few at 10.12. Grassers and buttermilks 3.50 to 5, Western calves 7. Dressed calves 9 to 13 cents city and country. Sheep at lis ? per 100 lbs.
J A Leverty and Brother druggists advertise a coupon allowing customers to purchase a fifty cent package of Ames Pleasant Specific for constipation and dyspepsia at half price. The offer applies at three locations: 1655 Main Street, 608 Park Avenue, and North Avenue and Main Street.
Leverty promises a personal refund guarantee with every package of Ames Pleasant Specific if it does not permanently benefit. The medicine, offered at half price, targets liver trouble indigestion and related symptoms and is claimed to have cured hundreds of obstinate cases. The low price bottle currently costs 26 cents and lasts a month after a few days of reduced dosage.
The article previews Halley’s Comet approaching Earth after a long voyage of 714000000 miles. It hints at possible effects and highlights Garrett P. Serviss as the author of an accessible explainer readers should seek out.
A sweeping table of contents highlights pieces such as The Vow of Silence by Alice Hegan, The Crocks O’Goold by Herminie Templeton, Policing our Lawless Cities by General Bingham, and Japan Won’t Fight Us by Dr. Thomas E. Grace. Also includes The Birds’ Tribute to Vanity and Lifting the Curse from Kansas with fiction by Morgan Robertson and Rex Beach.
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