A Bank Manager’s Gambit and a Bridegroom’s Flight
A bank manager in London recalls a near ruin when partner Charles Thrapstow forges a bond scheme with Damascus Water bonds. The plot unravels as a clerk uncovers deception, Thrapstow’s flight, a staged wedding, and a cautionary rescue involving five thousand pounds. The tale ends with Thrapstow’s attempt thwarted and a tense bank meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Domestic Bank
Royal Domestic
Directora
Thrapstow
Roberts
Charles Thrapstow
Charlie
City of Damascus Water Company
Thrapston
Poe
Billings Brothers
Warner
Hright Charlie
Charles
Geome
Knen
Bac
Isabel
Venables
Misa Maidmont
Great Work Sought By Allie In Quiet Life Of Faith
In an October twilight at the parsonage Allie, daughter of a devoted pastor, graduates with honors and prays for a grand calling. Her early ambition yields to humble service after the death of her father, teaching a life of quiet charity and daily labor for the Master.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allie
Earth
Paradise
Alice
Gates of Pearl
Gethsemane
Calvary
Mr. Ironton
Angel of Death
Heaven
Mason
Mr. Trenton
Inge
Mary
Gay
Pang
Step Mothers, Divorce Clash Highlighted in Opinion
The Banner prints abstract of Judge Guilds opinion as a step mother faces hostility in a troubled marriage. A wife who feels intruded by another woman is torn by hatred and sorrow, while the husband’s coldness and a public ad demand reconciliation, with life and love at stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Field
American Register of
Paris
Fardingales
Shakspeare
Edward Kynaston
Charles the Second
Harriet Hosmer
Rome
Michael Angelo
Euclid
Joans of Arc
Charlotte Cordays
Margaret Fullers
England
Russia
America
California
Metullus Numedius
Gregoire
Blois
Hic
Sleep and crying baby torment in marriage life
A long extract laments the strain of a crying infant on marriage, contrasting daytime amusement with nighttime torture. The narrator describes a thirty two month old baby awakening, crying, refusing sleep, and the exhausted parents contending through the night. a line ends with a Bedl dispatch noting illness cases in Allen's township, Monroe County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marriag
Lang
Bedl
Allen’s Township
Monroe County
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Girele
Gedgemount
Nurapstow
Wit
Guidaye
Charles Thrapston
Susan
Miss Maidmont
St. Spikenard’s Church
Charles Tempest
St. Spikenard’s
Nutting Hill
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