Wagers of Change in Hyde Park Dreaming of Wealth
Doris Helston, aged twenty four, rises from a Bayswater upbringing to struggle in London. After her father’s death and her mother’s bankruptcy, she deserts a planned stage career for typing work. She endures poor pay, a dubious clerk job, and a police case tied to a fraudulent letters scheme before finding brief drapery work amid hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Helston
Hyde Park
Doris
Bayswater
Helston
Fitzroy Square
Mortimer
Mr. Mortimer
Eye Specialist J L G Adams Promises Cure for Difficult Cases
A public notice promotes Dr J L G Adams as an eye specialist with years of experience who limits practice to difficult cases. It claims many patients who were blind or hard to treat regained vision after treatment under a guarantee and pay later upon cure at offices in San Antonio and Austin Texas.
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J. L. G. Adams
Avenue’b
San Antonio
Texas
Congress Avenue
Austin
Adams
Wealth in Hyde Park Brings Stranger Aid to Orphaned Doris
After a park accident Doris Helston faces ruin and hunger. A wealthy stranger Mr Cyril Hannaford lends aid, offers shelter, and reveals connections to her late father. Doris learns she is his niece and heir, joining his family and future as his daughter-in-law in a tale of survival, deceit, and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Hannaford
Curzon Street
Mayfair
Doris
Hannaford
Mr. Hannaford
Mrs. Hannaford
New York
London
America
Reginald Hannaford
Isa
Cyril Helston
England
Reginald
Doris Hannaford
Hyde Park
Insurance Seven Ages In A Satirical Rhyme
A poetic monologue lists figures from insurance to politics through seven ages. It mocks city life and the emptiness of public figures as it traces a procession from the eager agent to the forgetful elites, ending in generic oblivion.
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Ebers White
Photo Supply House
San Antonio, Tex
Kodak
Kodaks
Welcoine
Houston and
St. Mary’s Sts
Strand
Kensington Gardens
Albert Memorial
Doris Hanson
Richard Helston
Westbourne Terrace
Insurance
Albany
Sly Withal
Kentucky
Bond
United States
Edgewood Distilling Co
Main Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lincoln County
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