Writer Ferdinand Markiewicz Faces Holiday Work Deluge
In a Krakow flat, famed Polish author Ferdinand Markiewicz frets over a flood of manuscripts and requests from editors, admirers, and a mysterious woman who claims to be his muse. His wife Antulka nudges him toward rest as their children demand play and the house fills with frogs and letters.
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Review
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Treavens
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Zofla
Marynia
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Zofia
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Antulkea
Antulka
Adnulks
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Anialka
Tama
Mamma
Andria
Jozlo
Europe
Cracow
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Shell
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Paris
Thiat
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Misia Papowska
Association For
Jessure
Skrzeczkowska
Antulke
Ilke
New York Commercial Advertiser
The Isvoshtchik of Russia and His Droshky Life
A London Field synopsis details Russian droshky drivers, the isvoshtchik, a nomadic cabman who shares one vehicle with a partner. They live without fixed lodgings, sleep in the pothouse, feed horses from corn merchants, and swap night and day shifts to save for returning to the land. The piece contrasts chivalric teamsters with the practical, elastic fare system and life on city streets.
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Russia
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Droshky
Ufe
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Little John
London Field
An Irish Horse Tamer Breaks Fiery Untamed Steed
The famed Irish horse tamer Bullivan was renowned for taming vicious horses. He trained in secret by locking himself with the fractious horse for about half an hour. On signal the door opened and the horse, drenched in sweat, lay down calmly as Bullivan neutralized its spirit.
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Bullivan
Broadway Hoodoo Building Turns Office Ghost Town
A Broadway structure labeled under a spell bears the warning AH hope abandon ye who enter there. The vacant offices and rumored hoodoo deter new tenants as a Brooklyn judge allows libel claims over a building. A John Street site fared worse with no successful firm past, while a first tenant in Broadway No. So-nnt-so benefited a fortune of $100,000 annually. The former occupant says the hoodoo still haunts the block despite the owner’s chances to prevail.
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Broadway
Brooklyn
John Street
Bargain Day Cure Trolls Wife With a Joke
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip tells of a man who finds his wife enfeebled on bargain day. After a failed home remedy he recalls a joke and offers, "too bad you have to be sick on bargain day." The wife recovers when the punchline is delivered, highlighting thrift humor.
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