Love and scandal swirl in crowded city rooms
A Chicago Mail tale follows Claire Adler, a violin student turned social rumor. From lessons with a handsome French musician Auguste Renier to clandestine meetings, a family confrontation with Claire’s father, and a dramatic escape to New York, the affair ends in charges of impropriety and a hasty departure for safety. May, a gossiping confidante, rounds out the triangle and stirs a sensational cloud over the Adler household. Hood’s Sarsaparilla end does not relate to the main story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Adler
Gunther's
May
Claire
New York
Hudson
Flower Mission
Auguste Renier
Auguste
State Street
Jacke
Mr. Adler
Old Adler
Cain
Renier
Adler’s
Renier’s
Adler
Ste
Honier
Paris
Chicago Mail
Detroit
Tommy
Frankie
Papa
Jack
Albany
New Jersey
Jersey
Jersy
Odds and Ends from a Bustling News Roundup
A disparate collage of quirky facts and anecdotes from Paria to Paris. Notes include mules, a 60 year old writer, a 400 million dollar cotton harvest, a Paris census of horses, an Eiffel Tower note, a French school in Paris, safes and forgetful owners, a sparrow causing a coal breaker fire, a bequest in Lewistown, a bologna lubricant anecdote, British Museum limits on novels, and a Detroit boy’s weather quip. Numerous named persons, places, and curious incidents populate the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paria
Butler
J. T. Trowbridge
Berdenhand
Col Bush
Bronson Howard
Johnstown
Bankapoor
James Jonas
Prentiss County
Mississippi
Boston
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Coshocton
Scranton
Kingston Coal Company
John Colter
Tim Crowley
James Ryan
Ryan
Lewistown
British Museum
Zola
Wedded life tales and a barber town arrest tale
Titusville notes a jovial wedding trip with a five dollar merry go round ride. An elderly couple Joseph Conkling and Maria Edwards wed at Port Jervis after fifty years of delays. Lewis P. Davis, returning from the west, sought Harris in Barberatown. Harris’s father demanded $300 and then $200 before jail. An optical shop advertises regular prizes and free examinations with new eyewear offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titusville
Joseph Conkling
Maria Edwards
Port Jervis
Weary With Waiting for a Health Recovery
Miss Anna Browning of 415 Virginia Ave recalls eleven years of chronic lung trouble. After exhausting other help, she tried the Blair Treatment at Blair treatment, 208 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis. She reports rapid improvement in head pain, cough, appetite, sleep, and strength. Consultation costs $1, with mail responses requiring four cents in stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Browning
Virginia Ave
Blair
Drunkenness or Alcoholism Said Curable by Treatment
A period essay asserts the liquor habit is a depraved appetite but can be positively cured by using a method described in the text. It emphasizes moral reform and medical treatment as path to sobriety.
Royal Specific for Drunkenness Sold by Warp Bro
A vintage notice proclaims HAPS ROYAL SPECIFIC can be given with or without patient knowledge and works for old drinkers or acute alcoholism. It claims to suppress liquor appetite when taken as directed and offers mail orders from Warp Brothers at 40 E Washington St priced at two dollars per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warp Bro
Washington St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hood
Odds and
Edmondson, Optician
Fletcher’s Bank
E. Washington-st
Hissel
Ilinois
Anna Brownings
Kieyon
North Illinois Street
Ila
Indianapolis
North Tlinois Street
Schnull
Fumas Cigar
Laura Wolford
Hattie Bowen
Mack Hlease
Baker
Professor Williams
Philadelphia
Big 4
Washington
Meridiansts
Wa. Kottemal
Travelers Egister
Union Station
South Illinois Street
Springfield
Ohio
Bloomington
Peoria
Chicago
Indianapols Union Station
Dally
City Licket
Jackson Place
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Bradley, Holton & CO
Hatshalicton& Daytom Ri
Toledo
Indianapolis i
Aily
Illinois-st
Kentucky
W. HH. Fisner
Indels
Panhandle
Leeven
Pittsburg
Richand
Columbus
Pitts
East
Hickm’g
Mail and Express
N. Y
Chgo
Northwest
Louisville
South
R. B
Cairo
Vincennes
ST. Louis
Greencastle
Terre Haute
H. RB. Dering
Cincinnati
Denart
Union Depot
Washington and
J. H. Martin
Dist
Pass. Agt
F. M. Abbett
M. TD
Virginia
Do. Outa Mfg. Co
White St
Wall
Elliott
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea CO
Rof
G. D. Edmondson
Comstock
Astigmatic T&st
Edmondson
Comstock’s Jewelry Store
Washington Strait
China
Ow Frices
Eldridge &Co
Logis Reibold
Homeown & Mattingly
West Market Street
Cyclorama Place
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