Fortune Built On Borrowed Funds Story Of Henry Cline
F C Graham recalls a Clark township tale from twenty years ago about Henry Cline a Jew peddler who borrowed 800 from Washington Farwell and 3609 from Robert Graham to stock a store at Mound later vanished to California. He returned years later in Los Angeles where he repaid the loans with interest and built a fortune now estimated at 150000.
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F. C. Graham
Los Angeles
Cal
Henry Cline
Mound
Clark Township
Holly
Cline
Washington Farwell
Robert Graham
Ienry
New York
California
Henry
Germany
Coshocton County
Green Bay
F. O. Graham
Bloomfield
Robert
Graham
Wash Farwell
Thos
Samuel Gompers
Russia
A. C. Bird
Egyptian Tobacco a Trade Delusion and False Origins
A Washington Star piece debunks Egyptian cigarettes as a myth, noting no Egyptian tobacco exists and Turkish leaf dominates. It explains how Egypt banned local cultivation to protect revenue, while Turkish tobacco markets shaped the myth and links to a later Germantown bell incident.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Cairo
J. G. Salvin
New York
Raleigh
East
Frussia
Turkey
Mediterranean
Constantinople
Algiers
Delta
United States
Great Britain
Old Liberty Bell Claim Goes to Court Over Property
Heirs of Wiltbank contest ownership of the Liberty Bell, asserting it is personal property of Wiltbank’s descendants. Philadelphia city officials fear junketing tours may risk damage, with Magistrate German and attorney H. Calady to press the case.
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John Wiltbank
Germantown
Wiltbank
Philadelphia
John Wilbank
Couners
Weithand
James McCliskey
Sydney Wright
Brooklyn
James Gornjian
Gelbert Casaldy
McCluskey
German
Marshall
General Lafayette
Ohio camps for troops at Newark cost state 75000
Ohio National Guard division camp at Newark begins August 17 for eight days. Two thousand tents shelter 500 officers and 5800 men with eight infantry regiments, two cavalry troops, batteries, Gatling guns, engineers, and medical units. Governor Nash reviews, Maj. Gen. Dic will command, camp logistics by Wright Hank and Frease, meals listed, and after camp rifle team trials and an Atlantic City sea shore excursion advertised for August 6 with rail fare offers.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Newark
Nash
Charles F., Dic
W. V. McMahen
John CG
Cleveland
Battalion of Engineers
Ninth Battalion
George M. Wright
Moulton Hank
Cal Frease
Fame and sorrow in Blaine era and labor myths
The column recalls Mrs. James G. Blaine and her late husband amid political rise, defeat, and public sorrow. It weaves in Mother Jones, Roosevelt parades, labor iconography, and a skyline of Wall Street crashes led by James R. Keene, Jay Gould, and the era’s financial upheavals, ending with optimism for Greater New York’s future.
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Republic
James G. Blaine
Little
Oak Hill
Washington
James G. Blime
Congress
House
Tom Reed
Colfax
Hamlin
Bowery
Holt
Jimmy
White House
Lincoln
General Grant
Blaine
Mrs
Logan
Flo
Harrison
Mr. Harrison
Mother Jones
Demalion
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Comstock Lode
James R. Keene
Gath
California
Wall Street
New York
Jay Gould
Manhattan Island
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
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Fortune
Ayer
M. Loneman
M.D
Ithaca
N.Y. Be
Q. C. Ayer CO
Audrageiste
Lowell Mass
Washington Star
Ohio
Cols Ames
Frease
Pennsylvania Lines
Atlantic City
Cape May
Anglesea
Avalon
Nelly Beach
Ocean City
Sea Isle City
Wilwood
N. J
Rehoboth
Del
Coshocton
America
W. H. Kipp
Hamilton
Ont
Carnal Val
Old Boys
Philosophy of Broadbrim
Talbert G Taylor & Co
William Stowe & Co
Exchange
San Francisco
Consolidated Virginia
John W. Mackay
Opera
Standard Oil Company
Boxwell
Board of
N. S. McClure
W. A. McCurdy
Frank Pigman
Jowepa Real
Rrehi
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