Wall street tragedy drives millionaire to self destruction
In a dramatic scene on Wall Street, Bob Brownley enacts a doomed bid to avert ruin as the stock gambling system collapses. Beulah Sands Brownley dies at her office, and Thomas Reinhart, Virginia's richest man, commits suicide after his fortune shatters in today’s panic.
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Wall Street
Ryou
Exchange
Bob Brownley
Robert Brownley
Barry Conant
Bob
Conant
Bob"Brownley
Beulah
Beulah Sands
Forty-second
Fourth Avenue
Twenty- Sixth Street
Madison
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
Grand Central
Fortieth Street
Fate
Fortieth
New Street
Wall
Trinity
Broadway
Astor House
World Building
Union Square
I Fourteenth Street
Beulah Sands-Brownley
Kmees
Bob Brownzley
Thomas Reinhart
Margaret and Daisy Save the Express at Flag Station
Margaret and her horse Daisy rescue a rushing express by signaling with a scarlet cloth at the foot of a hill flag station. The train dangerously nears the station, but the girl’s quick action halts it and Daisy keeps calm as help arrives.
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Conleys
Margaret
Lairyhood
Daisy
Papa
Flag Station
Mamma
Washington Star
The Toy Artist Mechanical Sketching Figure
A novel mechanical toy displays an ingenious drawing device. A worm-driven pinion rotates cams that move a pencil up down and side to side enabling the figure to trace lines and outlines. Each double cam is cut to produce a known object as the drawing proceeds. The base easel holds paper and a spring presses it to the pencil.
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Chicago News
New Shadow Show for Fun with Chinese Shadow Figures
A simple home magic trick uses a candle, a wall screen, and a mirror to cast moving silhouettes. An opaque prop sits between candle and screen while a cardboard calendar or book creates shadows of pasted dolls that appear to dance on the wall.
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Erator
Marjorie and the Wireless Telegraphy Lesson
A young girl named Marjorie asks about wireless telegraphy. Her mother explains two tall distant poles sending a message and Marjorie concludes that God hears and tells others.
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Marjorie
Fashionable Church Going Ledger Quote by Bishop Olmstead
The Denver dinner remarks from Bishop Sanford Olmstead of Colorado mock Sabbath breaking. He recalls an eastern clergyman noting rain affects church attendance, saying golf or motoring keep seats vacant when weather is poor.
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Sanford Olmstead
Colorado
Denver
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the Express
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New York Times
Toy Artist
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