Bottle stopper pitch leads to rogue scheme and downfall
A con artist Carruthers builds a Get Rich Quick syndicate around a bottle stopper invention. Rogers and others invest, dream of rapid wealth, and are drained of thousands. Discovery leads to confrontation and a brutal lashing, ending with Carruthers fleeing, later selling a stake for a fortune in St. Louis.
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Carrut
Sen
Rogers
Carruthers
Carr
Carr Uthers
Seoteng
Carthera
Carruther
Washington
Carruthare
Rane Ey
Daney
Carruthera
Arruthers
Fors
Rogers Ace
Sother
Smiley
Jackson
Thompson
Chapman
Dolger
Edwards
Carvey
General Madaae
Syndicate
Sone
Amiley
Delig
Carney
Rascal
Get Rich Quick Syndicate
Bay
St. Louis
Bt. Louis
Richard Spillane
Log Cabin Roofing Suggestion From Outing
The article cites Hor Hephart describing log cabin advantages over tents in cold weather. It recommends clapboards from nearby trees for roofing, noting bark tar paper is poor and a clapboard roof is dependable, lasting a generation and suited to remote sites.
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Jack Frost
Horhephart
Health Insurance in Mack's Monthly Drought Tale
In a drought era Kansas tale Aunt Tina from Teutonic roots laments hardship from drought and grasshoppers. Kin back east send aid marching barrels to her kitchen sparking a humorous misperception about sauerkraut and imagined starvation.
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Mack
Kansas
Tina
Divorced Beatty Wife Named Godmother By Queen Mary
London observes Queen Mary will be godmother to Admiral Beatty's expected baby, a surprising honor given Beatty's divorce and Wealth of Marshall Field. King George's circle hints the gesture aims to reassure American money and cement ties amid coronation year interests.
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London
United States
George V
Queen Mary
David Beatty
Marshall Field
Chicago
Queen Victoria
King George
Admiral Beatty
Naval Defense Committee
Beatty
Lambert Tree
Warwickshire
Young Tree
England
Inlaw
Marshall Field, Jr
Maldwin Drummond
King
Beattys
Deer Forest
Balmoral Castle
Death of Spotted Dandy the 11 foot boa in Kewanee
Mrs Ada Packard in Kewanee Ill kept an 11 foot India boa named Spotted Dandy as a pet. News reports say she blamed the snake for her own illness and arranged to have a 19 year old rattlesnake brought from Massachusetts to replace it after a rapid decline.
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Kewanee
Ill
Spotted Dandy
Ada Packard
Massachusetts
Recall of Obligation in Hour of Death
Seven men were injured in a Harlem collision between a car returning from the Walsh Keller boat in Bronx borough and a trolley car. George Stivers was dragged 30 feet in a dying condition, with Charles Arkin and James Buchanan fatally hurt. Stivers, regaining consciousness, urged that Thomas of the New England Cane pay Buchanan $975 from his estate.
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New York
Walsh-Keller
Bronxborough
Harlem
George Stivers
Charles Arkin
Janes Buchanan
Stivers
Thomas
New England Cane
Tom
Buchanan
Second Fi Fiddle Missive From Todgera-Ah
In a rough dated note from Todgera-Ah a speaker praises a musician invited to meet Mr. Eaton. The writer jokes about counting and expresses pleasure in meeting a gifted player while mentioning family and a supposed role as second fiddle to his wife.
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Eaton
Monaleur
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