Broadway Jones and the Gum Plant Dilemma
Jackson Jones known as Broadway faces a choice between selling his family gum plant to the Consolidated Chewing Gum trust or risking the town of Jonesville. His partner Wallace questions him as he wrestles duty versus money while Josie Richards urges him to protect the town and legacy.
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Jackson Jones
Broadway
New York
Jonanville
Abner Jones
Anary
Guru
Robert Wallace
Broad Way
Joan
Tta
Gerard
Wallace
Firt
Advyoy
Hte Waele Abner
Europe
Peter Pambroke
The
Consolidated Chewing Gum Company
Jonesville
Spotawood
Abner
Snid Broadway
Josie
Mom
Big Aimple
Thia
Trust
Jones
Mr. Jones
Milas Richards
Bob
Bay
Distant
Providence
Joneses
Ike
Main Street
Earth
Africa
Bal
Consolidated
Surat
Josie Richards
Rankin
Connecticut
Gum Village
Cage
Cloge
Magnate of chewing gum trade hints at inheritance plan
On the way to a hotel Broadway pleads with Bob Wallace about keeping a plant. Wallace doubts the plan but Broadway insists on preserving the enterprise for his children, foreshadowing a family dynasty.
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Broadway
Bob Wallace
Wallace
Great Men Merely Human in Private and Public Spheres
A review tone essay contrasts heroic legend with intimate portraits from Napoleon’s valet, Edward’s chauffeur, and Rhodes’s secretary. It argues kings are fallible, shows Rhodes boastful yet pious, and asks readers to see great figures as ordinary men within a vast era.
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Napoleon
King Edward
Cecil Rhodes
Edward
Africa
Paris Police Poorly Paid
Paris police, some in disgrace, are poorly paid. The maximum salary for a sergent de ville is 360 a year. With high living costs, officers supplement incomes by market porter work, boot repair, or odd tailoring. Despite hardship, about ten candidates vie for each vacancy in the force.
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Paris
Bull
Old Boston Asks Aid Of New Boston For Crack In The Stump
The Boston in Lincolnshire seeks help from Boston in Massachusetts to repair a long crack in the church tower of St Botolphs dating to 1208. The tower once served as a sea beacon. in 1908 storm damage moved the southwest pinnacle and damaged the bell chamber roof.
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Boston
England
Lincolnshire
Maes
Bave & Crack
St. Botolph
Actioa
Twisted Spire On Church London Chesterfield
In Chesterfield England a church steeple appears dangerously crooked from many angles. A spiral construction makes it look bent though the spire is actually plumb.
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Chesterfield
England
London
Aeen
Purity as a National Asset in Atlantic City
Dr. R F Miller urged preventive medicine and a clean life as essential for national strength addressing the American Institute of Homeopathy. Dr. Edgar George disputed eye motion teaching, stating the eyeball moves in an oscillation with the center at the vision’s best point.
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Atlantic City
N. I
R. F. Miller
Bureau of Dermatology
American Institute of Homeopathy
Edgar George
Chicago
Monkey gland therapy claims cure for cretin child in Paris
Paris reports Doctor Voronoff describing a radical treatment for cretinism using grafting of a monkey thyroid. A fourteen year old boy, affected by myxoedema after scarlet fever, showed rapid physical and mental improvement after the baboon thyroid graft, performed before nineteen doctors.
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Paris
France
Academy of Medicine
Voronoff
Residents Seek Name Change for Little Neck Town
Citizens urge changing the town name claiming the present form sounds ungainly. Local agitation builds as residents press officials to consider a simpler designation.
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Little Neck
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Broadwy Jones
Edward Marshall
George M.coran
Heo
Jackson
Grand Central Station
Henry Wilson
Here
Cleveland
TOBH
Joels Richards
Ife
Old Buston
Massachusetts
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