The Sultan's Draft and a Lucky Draft
Hazleton recounts how a fifteen thousand dollar Sultan's Draft, forged through risky banking maneuvers and an invented signature by Oshkosh Randebaugh, saved him from ruin during a market panic. The tale traces the scheme from overdraft pressure to the final payoff and its moral twist as Armenian massacres loom.
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Hazleton
de Loss
Puebla
de Lops
Haeleton
Oshkosh
Randebaugh
Raudebaugh
Janes
James
Tibet
Archangel
Congo
Turkey
Sir Lo
Owell
Oime
White Lo
Clyicaga
Carr Bank
Tord
Pers Hays
James Hazleton
Marleton
Sublime Porte
London
Vwildie
Young Turk Party
Firope
Oshkoeh
FADS AND FANCIES In Sewing Patterns For Summer Fashion
Fashion notes praise self sewing as a smart, modern choice. Features patterns for a dainty evening dress, a collarless coat with elbow sleeves, and a modified circular skirt with gores. Instructions cite sizes bust 32 to 42 and waist 22 to 28 inches. Send pattern numbers and 15 cents per pattern to Fashion CORRESPONDENT in New York.
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Fastion
New York City
Land deal frail with phosphate boom in Florida
A New Yorker seeks to buy land in Florida during a phosphate boom offering ten thousand dollars. The owner, previously willing to sell for a few hundred, accepts with cash loans, requesting a fifty acre tract with a house, saddle and bridle, a rifle, provisions, sixty dollars for the elderly woman, tobacco, and a fishing-day arrangement, revealing a tale of manipulation and misplaced expectations.
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New York
Oman
Florida
Tissus
Happy Thoughts and Life Lessons in Odd Prose
A compact medley of aphorisms and humorous lines riffing on family, life, and versatility. The piece contrasts happiness at home with trouble, notes adaptable people rarely become tramps, and echoes Josh Billings on focused effort and practical postage stamps as a metaphor.
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Josh Billings
The Photograph Handkerchief Popular Trend
The photograph handkerchief fad grows with pretty collections and decorative uses. It reproduces a person’s image on fabric inviting home display from sofa cushions to personalized keepsakes. Sentiment drives exchanges and growing collections, paralleling postcard trading.
A Butting Property in Bryan Goat Tax Tale
William Jennings Bryan recounts a Nebraska tax dispute over a goat as real estate. An assessor explains that the rule taxes property abutting the highways, noting the goat’s tendencies to butt, prompting a humorous conclusion about taxing such “property.”
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William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Aii
Mvs
Matt
Feminine Accomplishments for Earning A Living
A discussion urging women to develop practical skills for entertainment and income. It outlines music, singing, painting, decorative arts, embroidery, and reading as viable trades, stressing social value and self reliance. It notes how entertainers, accompanists, designers, and hostesses can monetize talent.
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Asul
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Science
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Tevery
John
BROWN
Charles E. Ellis
Syliss
Ntimes
Leven Link
Ellis
Phese Porket
Imriek
Logan
Metro
Hameed
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Chas. E. Ellis
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