Love and a Hurry Prepares a City Hall Wedding
Flodie and Alfred push a scheme to legalize a marriage for Hall Bonistelle and Flodie Fisher in a spoof ceremony at a studio. Miss Fisher’s perjury is forgiven as the lovers race against a ticking clock with Jonas objecting and Mr. Doremus confirming the wedding before midnight. The crew celebrates, revealing the fortune and who will inherit it.
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Flodie
Alfred
Hall
Miss Fisher
Alfred J. Smallish
John
Mary
Plodie—Fisher—Bonistelle
Flo
Mr. Bonistelle
Jove
Mr. Bonictelle
Doremus
Jonas Hassingbury
Jonas
Fledie
Mr. Doremus
Hall Bonistelle
Flodie Fisher
Plodie Fisher
Mr. Bon
Hassingbury
Most Perfect of Plants and the Human Body
A short essay compares the human body to an idealized perpetual motion pump, arguing the brain and nervous system outperform any factory design. It uses a humorous restraint on unrealistic specifications and notes that many boastful ideas mirror ones we carry inside ourselves. It ends with a quip about youth and vanity.
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John H. van Deventer
Engineering Magazine
Little Girl Describes Toad in Quirky Portrait
A young girl recalls a toad as a big green bug with warts who sits and stands oddly. The remark hints she may grow into a famous novelist or perhaps a manicurist someday.
Latchstring Out Spare Seat in Paris Embassy Tale
Gen Horace Porter recalls hospitality during a Paris visit. He invited friends to his embassy pew with a loose latchstring. A visitor even quit his Christian Observer subscription, saying he did not want any observers while in Paris.
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Paris
Horace Porter
The
Christian Observer
A Strenuous Finale in a Boston Globe Concert
Mrs Prebson praises Professor Scrapeso for violin playing as his soul seems on fire while Mrs Prebson notes the performance. Mr Prebson jokes about his fiddle strings smoking as the finale ends. A remark on inventing something to take the cut out of the cutworm hints at lasting fame.
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Boston Globe
Smile magic boosts business and brain power
A prior Exchange article notes experiments showing joy improves bodily functions and especially brain circulation. A smiling, confident demeanor attracts customers, boosts thinking speed, and can magnetically draw more business, while gloom repels clients and harms prospects.
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Joy
Sponge attack sparks $5000 damages suit in New York
Leon Janow, who calls himself weak and diminutive, sues Solon L. Frank for 5000 after Frank allegedly roared at him and kicked him in the thigh in Fulton club rooms at Durland's Riding academy. Janow says a sponge was thrown at him several times and he had to seek medical care.
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Leon Janow
Solon
Janow
His Handicap and a Pants Offer at Reading Circle
The Kansas City Star quotes poet B. Iden recounting a dull task of splitting hickory knots when a wayfarer offered to swap his old trousers for the job. He declined because he was wearing the trousers and a reading circle was meeting at the house.
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B. Iden
Kansas City Star
Work Worth Cultivating in Sales Advice
A New York University Dean Johnson quote urges young men in business to master selling even if not pursuing a sales career. It emphasizes that selling one’s own services is a tough but essential skill for success.
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Dean Johnson
New York University
Bright
Dean's
Indoor Occupation
A physician urges interest in outdoor parts as a remedy for indolence. The citizen replies that outdoor reads are his main daily source of information and activity.
Eastern Colorado lands offered for settlers and cattle
Several million acres in Eastern Colorado await plowing with good climate water and rainfall for feed crops, beef pork and dairying. Land prices run 8 to 15 dollars per acre and Rock Island Lines has farming opportunities data for prospective settlers in its region. Homeseekers tickets go on sale the first and third Tuesdays monthly.
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Colorado
Rock Island
L. M. Allen
la Salle Station
Chicago
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Prope
Buffalo
Carter
Moone
Moone Chemical Co
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Rochester
N.Y
Blackley
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
Cal
Chisage
HA Parker
Balsam
G. Elias & Bro., Inc
Buffalo, N
Sven
N. Ua
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