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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1901
Page
10
In a Chicago Record-Herald poem, a moonlit farm scene features a wandering musician who performs ragtime and patriotic tunes. The performer, once our Jim, now earns wages dressing in fancy clothes on stage, revealing a family’s view of artistic genius and change.
Georgina Gray rejects her poor lover George Howard after learning her wealthy uncle has left him nothing. She marries the rich old Burton for money, and Howard departs heartbroken. Six months later Howard marries Burton’s heiress, unaware she is his former love. Narration notes the irony of true love vs wealth and ends with the heiress avenged.
George M Pullman plans to marry soon once he secures a divorce from Lynne Fernald Pullman. The engagement has become known in Burlingame San Mateo and Redwood, with cautious confirmation from the fiancee family. Mrs Brazell Sanger Pullman sisters are noted among San Francisco’s beauty set, and tales of past marriages and fortunes surface as the circle discusses the union and the family’s recent losses.
Rail line notes advertise round trip fares to Springfield Illinois for state fair and to San Francisco for Episcopal church convention with return windows and stopovers. Also reduced rates to fairs in St Louis Fort Worth and other districts plus through sleepers Moline to San Francisco. Contact depot corner 18th Street and Fourth Avenue. telephone 2195 for full details.
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