Blackmailer gets outwitted in street scam tale
A young woman drops her bag with letters as a shopkeeper is approached by a dressed up con man. The blackmailer Denico threats a costly ransom, but the shopkeeper Perks pretends innocence, refuses, and is later revealed to have joined the trap. Denico exposes the letters and is thwarted. the couple burns the letters.
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Vakian
Qladam
Sounier Ami
George Perks
Johnny Denice
Perks
Mr. Denico
Benico
Denico
Denice
Georfre
Denteo
Illinois committee accuses lakefront land grab in Chicago case
A special Illinois legislature panel accuses railroad and corporate interests of a 250 million lakefront land grab affecting Chicago and Mississippi river frontage. The report calls for charter revocation of a key railroad and probes Captain Wellington Streeter’s Lake Michigan district, urging action to restore land to the state.
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Elinois
United States
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
Blake
George Wellington Streeter
Lake Midhigan
Streater
Grantsville appoints world’s youngest mayor editor
Bord B Stutler, 21, is the new mayor and weekly newspaper editor in Grantsville West Virginia. He defeated a senior physician by three votes to claim the post, becoming the county seat’s youngest executive and a rising political figure. Stutler entered the news business at 18 owning the Grantsville News, and earlier worked as coeditor and assistant postmaster.
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Grantsville
Bord B Stuller
Major
Haring
Afteen
Calhoun County
West Virginia
Stutler
Jokes and oddities slash legends from mixed up pages
A collage of quirky bits and misread jokes from early 20th century papers. It features a long oral joke about a dentist and a layman, a Berlin market eater who consumes vast foods including hay, St Helena sea rollers described by the Exchange, and a Brooklyn court joke about a man’s marriage as a crime. The items mix humor and odd facts with patchy OCR.
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St. Helena
Coney Island
South Brooklin
St.Helena
Goat Pound Ridge
Quotations on Sanity and Fortune from The Last Hale
Snippets note public figures and reflections from Washington Herald and Poston Transcript. Lines reference a woman sent to a sanitarium yet playing better bridge, plus lines about Figgs and Figg finishing a course and Beecher on happiness and character.
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Washington Herald
Theo
Bragsie
Fogg
Figg
Poston
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Chicago Lake Front
Ilinois
Boyd
Héis
Riser
Pain
Man
Paw
Lissen
Maw
Bix
Anaker
Earth
A&er
New York Post
Berlin
London
Charles Smoith
Fawcett
Brooklyn
South
Nefro
Bonah
New York Times
Beecher
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Mountain View Avenue
Passaic Ave
Nutley, N.J
OF Hanpson and Farryt
Union Bidg
Clinton St
Newark
N. J
Quo Centre St
Nutley
Alexander Edwards
Kalsemining and Paper
Newark St
Glendale St
Loop Nutley
N. d
G. H. Angell
Chestnut St
William Searle
J. Searle & Son
Franklin Avenue
Church St
Keyser & Corb
Nutley, N. J
St. St. Davis Overland Agency
Chestnut Street
F. C. Wittmann’s
Avondale Road
Weston Place
New Jersey
Central Meat Market
William R. Stirratt
Franklin Ave
V. Lombardy. & Son Custos
West Nutley
George C. Baptiste
Chestnut Sto Res
Mountain View Ave
M. .B. Angell
Francis J. McKenny
Centre St
Passaic Av
H. E. Brown
RUTAN
Harrison ST
J., MC Davis
Stager Bros
Hugh Hallidy
Vreeland Avenue
Nutley, N. i
Haberle
Allwood
P. F. Guthrie
Highfield Lane
AL ‘Blum
Passaic Avenue
Franklin
Park School Hall
T8. Brown
H. A. Downolly
Ernest
Bloomfield‘Avenue
Bloomfield
N.J
Passaic
Jefféreen St
Tal ‘Pettersen
Chesinue Street
Allan, B
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West ‘Nutley
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Glen Ridge Cemetery
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