The Conquest of Sally at Morrison's
At a Morrison house reception Sally quarrels with a wary companion who courts her with a secret proposal. A pet bear roams the room as Ralph Morrison arrives, claiming Sally as he drops the ice, while the narrator finally confesses love after a bearly interruption.
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Morrison
Ralph
Mr. Morrison
Portieres
Gerald
Mr. Ackley
Mr. Ralph
Five-Cent Fare Sparks Ten Thousand Dollar Suit
Henry Mahnken, ex Jersey justice and Brooklyn brewer tracer, sues Brooklyn Heights railroad for $10,000 claiming a conductor refused to return a 25 cent change and falsely labeled him a counterfeit after boarding at Kentave and Broadway. Mahnken was detained after being restrained on the car, jailed seven hours, then acquitted in police court.
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Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
Henry Mahnken
Hoboken
N. J
Brooklyn Brewers
Mahnken
Kentave
Broadway
Brooklyn
Manhken
Crowded Christmas Trade Floods New York Stores
Report from New York on December 19 describes unprecedented holiday shopping crowds. Dept store managers estimate over 250000 shoppers visit daily, with sales surpassing any prior year despite bad weather. Elevators and cars overflow as clerks struggle to keep up, customers beg to pay as they wait. Brooklyn also reports heavy Christmas shopping.
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New York
New York Haven
Grenter
Brooklyn
Judge Truesdale Survives Explosive Incidents in Indiana
Alexander Indiana December 19 Judge W H Truesdale a democratic city judge and former congressional hopeful recovers from two explosive episodes one political and one gas related. He lit a match in a gas filled Elks hall causing a fire but escaped with blisters and maintains his jovial, generous persona as exalted ruler of the lodge.
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Alexander
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Cramer
the Sun
Congressman Cromer
Congress
Elks’ Hall
Truesdale
Elks
Gas Belt
Hoosierisms and Local Tales Spark Gentle News Briefs
A batch of small-town quips and incidents from Hoosier newspapers. A father gifts a rifle with mixed feelings, a boy limps home after skating, and a brick-faced fall prompts repair plans. A rabbit escapes a farm shooter, a nitroglycerine jug wrecks a wagon, and a Sand Creek resident jokes about Venezuelan exploits. Legislator Sanderson in Whidby introduces a bill limiting butter sales per cow weekly.
The Boss Liar and a Corn Shuckin Tale
Alva Snyder of Danville Indiana recalls a bragging tale from his farming days by the Wabash bottoms. He describes hitching a plow and feigning prowess while telling of nine big ears per stalk at a corn shuckin time, provoking hearty laughter among listeners.
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Ananias
Wabash
Alva Snyder
Danville
Ind
Broken OCR list of company notices in Indiana region
Fragmentary line shows incorporated notices for Green field coal and mining in Terre Haute with 10000 dollars, Syracuse screen and grill company in North Manchester with 20000 dollars, Greensburgh chat company appears garbled.
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Green Field Coal and Mining Company
Terre Haute
Syracuse Screen
Grill
North Manchester
Greeneburs Chat Company
Greens
Statesman vaunts over veto and war assignment remark
A charged quotation traces a statesman’s boastful stance on veto power amid war policy. It also notes the president’s sequence of declaring war followed by an assignment while critiquing Senate turnover as a place for declining representation.
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Senate
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