The Reporter’s Tale Of Ambition And Downfall
A reporter recalls a midnight scheme to boost a beauty by claiming Lord Martingale praised an unnamed Mrs. Ringletter as the most beautiful in New York. The plan spirals as Mrs. Ringletter climbs to high society, aided by fashion and costly fantasies, until debts mount and the truth emerges. A ruined husband reveals the scam’s cost as the forerunner to a disastrous social fabrication.
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Menon
Ble
Lord Martingale
London
New York
Guy Ringletter
Metropolitan Opera House
Lord Mallingale
Lucy
Queen of Society
Muaytingale
Hime
Tord Martindale
Bomebody
Shorty Mahan's Passing Ends Boxing Legend Jerrold Custodian Of family Pride
Jefferson Douglass Jerrold inherits the Jerrold name and family treasures after Shorty Mahan rides into the sunset, confessing in a letter that he quit boxing to marry a parish priest's daughter following a kitten caper and a sunset church vigil beside Freshwater Lake.
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Shorty
Mahan
Jefferson Douglass Jerrold
Jerrolds
Copley
Jefferson Douglass
Caeer
Michael Ryan
Gymnasiuin
Ryan
Jefferson Dovelass
Shorty Mahan
Stel
Shorty Madi
Billy Devine
Pacific Coast
Freshwater Lake
Thornton
Jim Delaney
Cap
A Slight Mix Conception and the Poll Tax Pole
An Italian naturalized citizen Angelo Hyed in a philanthropy built cottage town resents a torn ornamental hitching post he removes it to avoid paying a poll tax. He tells his landlord the pole costs him too much and orders his wife to fetch the bill turning the post into street debris.
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Angelo
Brooklyn Agile
Anpelo
Vacant Seats Spark Passenger’s Seat Shuffle
A Chicago Record-Herald reader recalls a crowded suburban train with an extra car, noting how riders eye and reeye vacant seats. One elderly man scans repeatedly, hesitates, and moves again, illustrating a restless search for the best spot as cars fill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enburnisament
Lenin
Geveral Tlues
Chicago
The Tiger Man and His Jungle Testament in India
A 1903 profile recounts the “Tiger Man” of India, a high caste figure who tamed beasts by diplomacy rather than harm. He roamed ruins and jungle, guiding tigers and cobras on commands, often testing himself against dangerous odds with the governor observing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Lewis
India
Hindoo
Lam
Mother Beauty
Lle
Archaid
Sulib
Tredit
Serpenta
Spavin Ointment Claim For Horse Ailments Sale
An old advertisement touts English Spavin ointment as a cure for horse blemishes including spavins curbs splints and ringbone. It promises relief for sweeney sprains and swollen throats with one bottle claimed to be the most wondrous blemish cure known. Sold by B F Kea bl i deuggist Pellaytn. a
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B. F. Keabl‘i/ deuggist
Pellaytn. A
Movement behind Delano bill gains Iowa support
The Corn Belt Meat Producers Association pushes the Delano bill to regulate hive stock shipments by rail. Petitions pour in from across northern Iowa as association officers target railroads and packers, promising drastic changes to stock trains and operations. The scene shifts amid other state news including a tax case in Hardin county and a rate war among western rail lines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association of Towa
Cour
Supreme Court of Iowa
Hardin County
Board of Supervisors
C. B. Albrook
Albrook
Supreme Court
Burlington and Alton
South Atlantic
Chicago
Missouri River
Atlantic Seaboard
Burlington
Alton
Baltimore
Newport News
Norfolk
Kansas City
Gulf Ports
Great Western
Gulf
St. Louis
Seaboard
Missouri
Mississippi River
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H. C. Payne
M. D
Adam
French
People’s Savings Bank
W. M. Fuqua
Dr. van Schoten
Geo. J. Thomasson
Attorney At Law
South Side
O Park
Pella
E. I. Roorda
Owa
G. W. Vander Ploeg
Opera House
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Roouatun
P. Brockington
Lippincott’s
Comexere Nove
Dr. Ve
Ema
BY T. Blair Eaton
Delaney
Jim
Mwe
Delaney and
Divison
Dawson
Parrson
Devine
the Tiger Man
I. G. Rogers Bros
Ujenal
He Minera
Uchigns, the International Silver CO
Meriden, Conn
Minneapolis
Printers’ Exchange
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