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Greek Meets Greek Boarding House Encounter
A paper agent posing as a book hawker visits a New Orleans boarding house on Magazine Street. He flirts and questions residents before offering a domestic guide for sale. An angry landlady warns him off, triggering a slapstick scene ending with the man covered in soap and a dog snapping at him. Other clipped notes mention a San Francisco couple seeking divorce and a Michigan Central Railroad price dispute.
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Magazine Street
New Orleans
Han
Per
Kendall
P. N. Granger
St. Albans
J. B. Kendall
Stoughton
Mass
B. J. Kendall & Co
E. Parker
Concord N. H
Concord
Underhill & Kittredge
Apothecaries
DL. T. Foster
Youngstown
Ohio
B. J
L. T. Foster
Bakersfield
B. J. Kendall &Co
Gents
J. Boutell
D.J. Kendall & CO
Engis Re Hts