Market Gambler Confesses Victory Over Family’s Plan
Vernon and Dorothy devise a stock scheme tied to F and V with calls at 73 aiming for a drop to 65. The scheme yields a large profit as the market falls, while Morton Harvey is left “cleaned out” but ends up proposing a business partnership with Vernon. Dorothy’s father contemplates a reform of his fleet of deals.
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Bemsir
Haszard
Brammin
City of London
Electra
James Vick
Rochester
N. Y
Vernon
Morton Harvey
Chester Vernon
Dorothy
Jessie
Chester
Investor loses fortune after stock pool collapses
Vernon bets his entire fortune on stock puts and a price chase but the pool is abandoned. Dorothy advises patience while the other trader lets the stock fall on its own, leaving Vernon ruined as his agents settle accounts and his father offers no help.
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Dorothy
Vernon
A Jewel of a Wife
A Russian nobleman visiting Paris mourns his wife and reveals a green ring containing her preserved body. He explains he hired a chemist to compress her into a solid jewel that would forever stay with him, after the coffin he opened yielded the preserved remains.
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Paris
Russia
Germany
Cigar Trick and Ancient Riches Compared in Wry Note
An amused note describes a stout man puffing an unlit cigar held by rubber bands as a self described aid to quitting habits. The piece then shifts to historical wealth figures for Solomon Croesus Lucullus and Alexander the Great, noting wealth and cautions about extreme riches in classical times.
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New York Press
Solomon
London
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