Not Goodby But Au Revoir Synopsis Begins
A tramp named Daniel Randolph Fitzhugh causes a street wreck. A young auto occupant saves him and pays him to wash. He reforms his appearance, then speaks at a radical meeting where Esther Strom prompts him to address the crowd. He meets financier Symington Otis and demands 10,000 with a dynamite package.
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Daniel Randolph Fitzhugh
Chicago
Esther Strom
Esther
Fitzhugh
Symington Otis
Kingdom Come
Otis
Bearer
Kathleen
Kathleen Otis
Fitz—Fitz
Daniel Fitzhugh
Thebrary
Ike
Maning
Noonan
Chicago Avenue
Lake Shore Drive
Goodby
Randolph Fitz
Kelly
Pockers
Ips
Ferocious bank plot turns to escape and romance
Daniel Fitzhugh rejects a death trap while Symington Otis menaces him with dynamite. Kathleen Otis helps him, and a Chicago chase ends with Fitzhugh jailed as Randolph Fitz. Esther Strom seeks a lawyer to aid him as the madman headline roars.
Irish Motherhood Superstition On the Aran Islands
In the south Isle of Aran off Ireland, a belief holds that good luck follows a mother who sews her child’s first garments. The garments must come from afar and be the coarsest possible. Oldest rags are deemed safest against evil.
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Esther
Chicago Avenue
Detective Kelly
Kelly
Isle of
Aran
Ireland
Misdirected Marriage Proposal Stuns Reader
In a humorous note cited by the Houston Post, Thomas mistakenly writes to Miss Brown as he accepts a marriage proposal, beginning with Dear George. The misaddressed letter reveals his confusion and a lighthearted error in romantic correspondences.
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Miss Brown
George
Thomas
Houston Post
Bearing Up Well Quip From Birmingham Herald
A brief exchange quotes Mr. Cobbles blaming a hired man for lazy tendencies with a punchline about dolce far niente. The Birmingham Herald notes the humor in the employer employee remark.
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Mr. Cobbles
Dolce Far Niente
Birmingham Herald
Bayer Aspirin Trademarked for Safe Relief Claimed
An old advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe, endorsed by physicians for nineteen years. It emphasizes the Bayer brand, directions for various ailments, and inexpensive twelve tablet tins, with mentions of larger packages and salicylic compounds.
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Bayer
Sublet the Contract in Meuse Argonne Scene
In the Meuse Argonne battle a Twenty-eighth Division line halts under orders to dig in swiftly. A single doughboy stays still with rifle angled toward the enemy while an officer shouts to make a hole, and the German prisoner digs nearby under the doughboy’s direction.
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Twenty-eighth
the Meuse-Argonne
Llome
Paper House Restuarant Built in Hamburg
The Boston Post reports a collapsible paper building once erected in Hamburg used as a restaurant. Walls of double layered paper stitched to frames were fire and water proofed and bolted together. The dining room seated 150 with 22 windows and four skylights heated by two jalated stoves.
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China
Japan
Hamburg
Boston Post
Vital energy stored by sleep in practical therapeutics
The article cites Henry Lindlahr M D stating that during sleep the body stores vital energy and releases it upon waking. It argues rest is essential as no food, drink, tonic, or stimulant can replace lost sleep for restoring energy for the next day.
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Henry Lindtahr
Eminent publisher meets starving genius for royalties
A bustling publisher agrees to publish a manuscript and even contemplates an advance. The aspiring author jokes that the advance will help begin filling the long felt want, prompting a humorous exchange about royalties.
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Style
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Ak Purple
By Edwin Baird
B. G. Browne & Co
Pupo
Roger Merton
Ashland Block
Steraf
Western
Canada
Manitoba
Saska
Alberta
Department of Immigration
Ottawa
W. $. Kethery
Columbus
Ohio
J. M. Maclachlan
Traction-Terminal
Ladianapolla
Ladlane Canadian Evernment
Doughboy
Sewurin
W. Bat Co
Michigan Avenue
Chicar
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