Shenstone Portrait Scheme Ends in Tragic Deception
A Wall Street tale follows Sidney Colbert, a struggling writer who fakes a likeness to Shenstone to secure work and money. The plan collapses as Sidney falls ill and dies, exposing a scheme that cheats Shenstone and misleads Sylvia, culminating in a costly inheritance and a planned Mediterranean exile.
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Wall Street
Shenstone
Miles
Shenstoné
Shepstone
Edgar
Sidney Colbert
Sidney
Daily Record
Ir. Sunstone
Scott
Miss Dean
Efo
Silvia
Sylvia
Gidney Colbert
St. Margaret’s Hospital
St. Margaret's
Literary forgeries and famed forgers in 19th century Europe
A survey of notable literary forgers linked to Sir Walter Scott and other authors. It recounts Alan Cunningham’s Scottish ballads passed as old works, Robert Surtees’ fake items, and French imitators. The piece notes Vrain-Nenis Lucas, Cahany, Psalmanavar, and Eccles among other frauds and their impact on literary fame.
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Alan Cunninghan
Scotland
London
Cunningham J
Cromek
Cunningham
Robert Surtees
Sir Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Movelist
George W. Haering
Willibald Alexis
Germany
Walladmor
Doldiy
Sir-Walter Scott
Fie
Ito
Scott
France
Allan Cameron
Ayme Verd
Paris
la Pythie Des [Lighlands
Charles J. David
BE. de Saint Maurice Cahany
Society of Archivistes
Moredun
J. A. Murmer
Vrain-Nenis Lucas
Ageet
M. Chasics
Lucas
Plato
Pliny
Lazarus
Mary Magdalene
M. Charles
Formosa
Tle
Johnson
Eccles
Bath
Ienry Mackenzie
Fourths Fatalities Fewee Tetanus and July Death Toll
The American Medical Association reports 73 tetanus cases this year in celebration of the Fourth, with decreases from 1908 backward and deaths totaling 164. Illinois led with 12 cases, New Jersey eight, Pennsylvania seven, and Ohio six. gunshots, arson, and explosions caused most deaths while 31 people were burned to death.
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American Medical Associatios
Irfsh
Tetanas
Oonaresias
Paonasivanis
Bataaas
Cau
Osnsad 13
Capitalist Killed by Auto in Chattanooga Tragedy
Benjamin Franklin Steel aged 48 a Chattanooga capitalist was instantly killed when his car plunged over a 15 foot embankment. William Leve suffered serious injuries and W E Headrick a traveling representative for a New York firm was lightly hurt. Mr Rees remained trapped under the vehicle with neck and back broken.
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Chattanooga
Aus
Benjamin Franklin Steel
William Leve
W. E. Headrick
New York
Rees
Tragic Train Fatalities Hit Two Cities
Baltimore report details Addie Selby 19 killed and Guy Knott Jr injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad express struck their freight train boarding attempt in the city’s west. They were from Washington. In Philadelphia a train crash near Wildwood on Five Mile Beach fatally injures Harry Gurk and injures others in the auto, killing his father Jenny J Gurk.
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Baltimore
Addie Selby
Guy Knott, Jr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Philadelphia
Harry Gurk
Five Mile Beach
Wildwood
Jienny J. Gurk
Gurk
Walter If Gurk
Frederick Market Prices From Frederick County Farmers Exchange
Pricing list detailing prices for corn, oats, hay, wheat, barley, buckwheat, dairy foods, cotton seed meal, and alfalfa from the Frederick County Farmers Exchange dated August 26, 1907. Includes grain types, shelled and unhulled varieties, per bushel or ton, with ranges and unit names.
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Froetiericn County Farmers’ Exchange
Sions
Glover Barry Red
Glover Sappling
Alalke
Miligé
Maryland Immigration Plan Fails to Lure Farm Laborers
A Maryland Bureau of Immigration report shows only 265 workers from Southern Europe placed on farms after a three month campaign led by secretary A. F. Trappp. Many left farms quickly, with 1509 arrivals dispersing across states. seven Macedonians remained in detention awaiting relatives, and one elder man drifted to Ohio and was held as a public charge.
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Maryland Stage Bureau of Immigration
Bir
A. F. Trapps
Sate
Europe
Maryland
Maryland State Bureau of Immigration
Ardoff
Trappe Oites Sheinaiangs
Savan
Trappe
Mer
United States
Vets
Immigration Boresa
Board of Inquiry
Immigration Department
Fane Baard
Aevan
Bonavar
Bensa
Wasdatuck
Patapsco
Treppe Thas
Ivan Nadeikof
Loledo
Ohio
Ford
Textaias Meklog Greans Ofrikes Afar
Trapps
Hig
Bremen
Galveston
Texas
New Orleans
Waestarg
Thore
Thie
State Bureau
Tell Baltimore Union
Stata Bureau of Immigration
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Alaine
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Coadh
Mr. Shenstone
Vane
Silney
Beelzebub Himmelf
Edgar Shellstone
Brn
Congress of Antiquarians
Huwiyer
Yasr
Biresima Weok
Wrear
Gia
Oates
Timothy
Rome
Seleas
Artaur Guiterman
Lewis
John T. Lewis & Seos. CO
S. Front St
Ata
E.G. Dewitt & OG
Chidagg
Clinton We. Mato
Drurelst
Penrre
Madara Pharmacy
P. Telephone Ca
Rey
A'Haney
Ick
A.g.quynn & CO
Frederick, Md
Great Southern Pig. Co
Agiso
Degegie
Frederick
Naewasepa
Phive
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