Higbee's Ham and a Gilded Family in Chicago
In a brisk style a Chicago business tale unfolds showing Percival and Higbee debating a simple sign for Higbee's Hams while Henry Higbee, pressed by fatherly discipline, shifts from gilded youth to laborer. The conversation touches Hank's turn to work, family influence, and a sharp critique of New York society and romance.
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Percival
Y Max
Chicago
Higbee
Walla
Henry
Carvival
New York
Hank
Fortunes and Tension in a Comic Opera Plot
A narrator recalls Hank and a failing comic opera company amid a tense summer. Hank faces pressure from a pursuing family determined to marry the girl for money, while the speaker warns against risky moves that could ruin elastic tensions and future opportunities.
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Hank
Jon
Afrie
Chapter Eight Some Light With A Few Side Lights
The author contrasts New York spring with rural renewal. He mocks city spring as tame and pale, noting gas-poisoned soil and dull greenery, while praising the natural awakening and vibrant renewal found away from the urban environment.
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New York
A Contrived Romance Across a City October Day
A young man buys roses for a woman who will not value him beyond money, then returns to a hotel to face his mother and a butler. In Central Park a separated couple debates trust and past vows, quoting a rebellious sonnet as they argue over love, duty, and courage.
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Broadway
Wall
Highbee’s
Percival
Polly
Fang
Downton drawing room intrigues and awaiting marriage
In a tense drawing room scene two visitors clash over plans to marry a curate while families plot and avoid scandal. Horace Millerey grieves in a quiet library as distant threats and schemes unfold, hinting at futures in a story labeled to continue.
The Plump and Petite Versus Tall and Slim
A humor piece critiques the praise of tall slim heroines in books and art, arguing a future champion will celebrate a plump petite ideal. It contrasts celebrity admiration with a satirical tale of James Scarlett of Rainsboro arguing about a clock.
Patent Pen And A Darning Egg Mystery
A sixty year old New Hampshire woman known for broad horizons visits Boston shops via mail orders. In the firm of a Boston niece she tours stores, seeking advertised novelties including the famed patent pending darning egg, while eyed by a curious clerk.
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Boston
Wiliston Faces Life Insurance Hassle and a Humorous Cure
Wiliston, beset by persistent insurance solicitors, plots to escape them. After a neighbor’s prank, he uses a rubber contraption to stir sympathy, leads to a heart test revealing serious risk, and a doctor’s warning about potential death. The tale, told in a Chicago Record-Herald voice, blends satire with a cautionary note on health and policy.
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Wiliston
Willston
Wilistons
Mr. Hossford
Williston
Hossford
Burance Tan
Polley
Willstonis
Bsay Company
Winston
Wilston
Dortt
Willson
Chicago Record-Herald
Travis Enjoys Short Grass Practice Odd Golf Exchange
Walter J. Travis sets the ball and makes half a dozen swishes at the short grass with the driver. He laments being out of form and compares his play to a broker's poor round. A quiet freckled-faced caddy remains expressionless, prompting the broker to seek a compliment. The caddy calmly replies that the broker has played before.
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Walter J. Travis
New York Tribune
Himsell
Diamond dealer's mistake leads to surrender of diamond
A man asks a jeweler to judge a diamond borrowed on approval. The jeweler criticizes the stone as flawed, suggesting a finer gem, then the buyer halts the purchase and demands the return of his $40 deposit, ending the deal.
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Weill
One on the Doctor
A brisk exchange between a doctor and a lawyer humorously undercuts professions. The doctor notes that neither makes angels of men, while the lawyer retorts about the advantage lawyers hold. The fragment hints at a comic strip or caption dialogue.
Vorauity Angler Debate Echoes in City Pubs
A quirky New York Sun quip questions local fishing chatter and a stranger’s warning to muzzle critics as defenders argue over fish bite lore and neighborly civility in a humorous urban aside.
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N. Y
Building Food To Bring the Babies Around
A Colorado mother reports her ill infant improved after feeding Grape-Nuts and milk then the cereal itself, crediting rapid health restoration to the product. The testimony claims Grape-Nuts nourishes nerves and brain for sturdy growth, urging readers to look for the Road to Wellville lookalike in advertisements.
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Colorado
Kansas City
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellvike
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Sistory OZ
Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
Leon
Lothrop Publishing Company
Tb Sas
Mr. Higbee
Silas
Milbrey
Lorace Milbrey
Montana
St. Louis
Millerey
Tuxedo
Meadowbrook
Jave
Athelston
Weu
Horace Millerey
Oprah B. Holgman
Times-Democrat
Senator Foraker
Washington
Josa
James Scarlett
Rainsboro
Gwendolen de Vere Hastings
James
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