Unclear Cash Totals Mentioned in Proceedings
Fragmentary extract records cash figures and names such as Quigg and Hunt. Totals show eighteen thousand due Quigg and twenty thousand six hundred fifty dollars on hand, with other amounts like eleven thousand five hundred and capital sums noted, lacking full context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dred
Quigg
Witzhugh
Vitzhugh
Fitzhugh
Suh
Porida
Calee
Fifth Avenue
Newport
Villa
France
Cotillon
Florida
Fitzhugh's Fall and Rise in a Chicago Drama
A troubled man, Daniel Randolph Fitzhugh, causes a street crash and is helped by a young woman who later becomes involved as he seeks wealth. He meets Esther Strom, a Russian anarchist, poses with dynamite claims, and earns a check from Symington Otis. After arrest, he is deemed insane, escapes, and confronts love, deceit, and crime while navigating a volatile Chicago underworld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Randolph Fitzhugh
Chicago
Esther Strom
Fitzhugh
Symington Otis
Otis
Kathleen Otis
Esther
Kathleen
Nikolay
Henry Hunt
New York
Wheat Pit Wealth and a Double Cross
Daniel Fitzhugh rises from penniless to a fortune in September wheat as bears crash the market to 55 cents. He hotly severs ties with Quigg & Peevy after exposing a failed scheme, then reveals a second, bigger plan to Hunt as they celebrate with lunch at the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Symington Otis
Daniel Fitzhugh
Bears
Fitzhugh
Quigg & Peevy
Quigg
la Salle Street
Board of Trade
Esther
Burton & Burton
Hunt
Morocco
The Perkins Double Fraud Tale Haunts an English Town
A Kansas City Star foreign correspondent reports on Herbert Leslie Verkins, a Wolverhampton herb seller, who closely imitates Perkins to commit fraud. Perkins has faced multiple arrests, four open warrants, and lengthy jail stays while proving his whereabouts across markets. He laments financial ruin as he tries to support a six member family, while authorities ponder the double’s crimes and the threat to public trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Herbert Leslie Verkins
Wolverhampton
Kansas City Star
Perkins
Gloucester
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Hull
Burton-on-Trent
Peterborough
Bristol
Leicester
Mongolian marriage customs cited with camel and rice prices
A period piece notes two marriage modes in Mongolia and gives price ranges for wives from five camels for a young girl to thirty or forty camels for an old widow. It also mentions a wife could be bought for five pounds of rice in that society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mongolia
Mongolian
The Bagdad railway outlined from Constantinople to Calcutta
Mr Lindsay Bashford in the Edinburgh Review envisions a London to Calcutta rail journey in a fortnight. He traces the Bagdad railway from Koala Asia Minor through Constantinople Aleppo Jerablus Mosul Bagdad Basra to Teheran Quetta and India with a projected overland speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay Bashford
Edinburgh Review
London
Calcutta
Bagdad
Koala
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Aleppo
Jerablus
Euphrates
Nisibin
Mosul
Tigris
Basra
Great Britain
Persia
Teheran
Quetta
India
Eclipse Observation From Airplane Proposed
Paul W. Merrill advocates using a DeHaviland plane with a Liberty motor at about 10 000 feet to observe eclipses. He says modern aircraft can rise above fog and cumulus for clear skies and may allow direct photographs with gyroscopic stabilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul W. Merrill
Freezone Corn Remover Promises Painless Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Freezone to remove hard feet corns and calluses painlessly for a few cents, claiming instant ache relief and easy lifting of the corn with a tiny bottle sold by druggists. The piece also includes a humorous anecdote about a Shakespeare lecture and a folding chair incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Parker
Hiscox Chem
Patchorue
N.Y
Inc
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogua
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure for Deafness
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrhal deafness by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. Explains deafness results from Eustachian tube inflammation and offers a $100 reward for any case not cured, with druggists and Toledo Ohio as contact points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Chener & Cn Toledn
Ohio
Fragmented Sample Ad Snippets and Witty Quotes
A collage of old ads and jokes appears with barber shop banter and cosmetic soap pitches. Phrases tease shaving tips, grooming products, restaurant price complaints, and social observations about rumors and diners.
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Ae Nai
Burton
George
Blunt
Fitzhugh Hur
Newport — Villa
Gwendoline
Houston Post
der Bruiumer
Berlin
Gmrraur Company
the Centaur Company
New York City
Twio
Bellans
Carter
DR. Carter
Express
Harold Sours
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
General Hospital
Lincoln Sanitarium
Lincoln
Nebr
Watson E. Colemann
Washington, D.C
Bates
Best
Bailey
Empire Bldg
Denver
Colorado
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