Ground-floor dream ends in disaster for Solomon Spitz
Solomon Spitz, newly rich after a $5,000 windfall, bets on Wimbley’s Automatic Exterminator Company. He buys 100 shares, bets on instant wealth, but the machine derails on a night test. The invention fails in a marsh, Solomon returns to May Belle defeated, and she offers comfort with practical love.
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Solomon Spitz
Maria
Solomon
Belle Spitz
Mr. Wimbley
Wimbley
Automatic Exterminator Company, Limited
Belle
May Belle
Bill
Hill
Hawkins
Tye
Inventor
Romance and Reality In New York Sun
Kicker notes he called her the light of his life while Becker reports he now seeks the gas rebate. The brief items reference personal affection and a change in consumer utility policy in terse, modern terms.
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Becker
New York Sun
A Railroading Night with Farley the Drunken Conductor
A narrator recounts a wild freight run over a mountain with Jack Farley, a brilliant yet drunk conductor. Farley’s erratic behavior triggers a deadly chase on a multi‑section train, ending when a brakeman subdues him and the narrator escapes, forever haunted by the ordeal.
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Dick Haynes
Farley
Jack
Haynes
Scott
Scoville
Farlay
Napoleon
Shawana
Iit
Drastic Meana Foot Note Run Inquiries
Fragmentary dialogue asks about running footnotes to hold reader interest without police methods and wonders what is meant by police methods in the discourse. The fragment hints at a literary or stage scene with quoted lines.
Marked MIT Cats In A New Back Yard Fight
A quarrelsome pair in a Boston area home clash with neighborhood cats. Mrs Vogel feeds a stray black kitten, which grows into a robust mouser disliked by Mr Vogel who later defends the cat from city animal cruelty workers. The pair and their cat become a summer household drama.
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Thomases
Cement Aley
Brisona
Lmits
Mr. Vogel
Mrs. Vogel
Josephine
Vogel
Mr Vogel
Rachel
Mr .Vogel
Thomas
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J. B. Lippincott Co
Jack Farley
Bill Farley
MIT
J.B. Lippincott Co
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