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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
1
In a briskly told scene from Wallingford and Blackie Daw, financier Wallingford plots to pry Harry Griswald’s ancestral riverfront estate from the wary scion while the Griswald siblings and spouses spar over the family business. The private world of a clay plant and a riverfront estate sets the stage for high finance schemes.
In Griswald era suburbia Blackie Daw and Wallingford clash with Tim Measen, town council proprietor, over reform rhetoric. Tim mocks reform, warns Wallingford about Griswald ties, and hints at buying Harry Griswald's residence to affect tax lists as reform talk rises in the fall campaign.
Wallingford meets Harry Griswald at his private office to discuss Griswald plans for extension and a potential sale. Griswald boasted of aggressive takedowns and a 5 way corporation while Wallingford hints at securing Peterson’s finance. The scene hints at broader power plays and rival bids as talks end unresolved.
John Wanamaker urged the Protestant Episcopal Church Boards to improve church buildings refine departments fix financial support and ensure fair, adequate and complete payments to ministers as the best form of advertisement and service in the community last week.
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