26 Aug 1846
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1846
Page
1
Advertisers pay per insertion with advance payment and discounts for multiple insertions. Rates shown include half and full column placements. agents list cities Philadelphia New York Baltimore and Boston. The text then offers a poem about a servant girl from Devonshire celebrating nature and beauty with stanzas about dew drops streams and a spring in the dell.
A young clerk, amid chatter of wealth, is drawn into a web of debts, schemes, and imagined riches. Misunderstood inheritances trigger house offers and stock moves, culminating in a sudden surge of profits from court funds and bank shares. He ends up peculiarly rich by rumor and luck, not certainty.
An extended narrative recounts a man’s rapid ascent in Paris after claiming a vast inheritance. Initially rich with twenty thousand francs and gold Napoleons, he enters society, dines with bupple of guests, and enjoys new luxuries. Friends later reveal the inheritance fraud, and the tale ends with a dramatic collapse as debts unfold and a public reckoning looms.
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