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Impecunious Swells and a Bowery Dress Suit Tale
A Bowery clothier recalls borrowed dress suits and a Christmas Eve visitor from Boston who could not pay. The tale alternates between comic disguises and a Shylock episode ending with a lesson on business and pride. Other notes report Stead’s release, boycotting laws, and a spate of labor and mine news.
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Boston
New York Times
Bowery
Poudre de Riz
Jockey Club
Fifth
Madison
New York
Mr. B
B.’s
J.S
East Thirty-third Street
Shylock
Posi