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Sailors Use Landlord Ruse to Escape unpaid Bill in City
Four United States Ship sailors, ashore near a port town, dined grandly at a City Hotel and ordered champagne. Facing a large bill they devised a trick to vanish with their carriage, leaving the stunned landlord to pursue payment as the waiter enacted a comic rescue by exposing the ruse.
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Richmond Mail
Rose & Sample
Thirteenth Street
Main
Cary
THAMS
Virginia
HIB
Messrs
Py & K?s
Lynchburg
Columbia
Liberty
Big Lick
Fincastle
Lexington
White Sulphur Springs
Lewisburg
Salem
Christiansburg
Newbern
Wytheville
Blacksburg
Abingdon
Rocky Mount
Virginia and
Tennessee
South Side Railroad
Petersbur
Raleigh
Weldon
Wilmington
WM. IL. Maush
Pearl Street
Henry Eyman’s
Main Street
Europe
United States
N. B
England
Henry Syman
Kent, Paine & Kent
Fourteenth Street
Richmond
London
Liverpool
Glasgow
Havre
Northaroling
Elias Hale
Pemberton & Brother
Exchange Bank
Jenny Linds
Paris
Philadelphia
JonNnston
Amennea
Dr. J
South Frederick Street
Baltimore
OCOD
J B Wood
Gaynor & Wood
N.B
Jas D B Evans
West Main Street
F. H. Cowling
Ropert
Cowling
Governor St
Franklin
NEW Medicine
van Lend. Taylors
PPE
Oe & Jackson
Moe Timber Geeters
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company
Petersburg
Port Walthall
Thos, Dodamead
RO & P. Rr, Co
United Stated
Jack Waters
Davy Jones
Waters
Brentley
Brently
Charley
Maxwell
Frank
Jack
Brenily
Ters
F. J. H. Anthony
Columbian
Fincastle Democrat
John H. Anthony
Cerer
A. Morris
Becker
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