Uncle Peter urges Percival to seize New York finance
In this installment, Uncle Peter Bines urges Percival to abandon idle wealth and pursue high finance. He critiques peers and outlines a plan to leverage the Consolidated Copper deal and related stocks with broker Relpin, aiming for a rapid ascent in the copper market and a lifestyle atop New York society.
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Billy
Nate Leverson
Nate
Billy Brue
Daniel J. Bines
Dan’l
Percival
Pete
Higbee
Peter
Wall Street
Shepler
Rulon Shepler
Peter Bines
Montana City
Billy Blue
Uncle Peter
Binies
Vandevere
Mr. Brue
Relpin
Relpin & Hendricks
New York
Montana
Escritoire
Psyche
Sis
the Battery
Bronx
Hightower Hotel
W. U. Telegraph Company
the Telegraph Company
Western Union
London
Ike
New ‘York
England
Pish
Jove
Res
Consolidated Copper
Nobby
Union Cordage
Lo Shepler
Consolidated
Itinerant Pig Loss Sparks Colonial Etiquette Lesson
A laborer's wife in a village asks Maj Currie, freshly returned from India, for help after her pig dies. He misreads the custom of communal aid, replies with blunt humor, and the exchange reveals cultural misunderstanding and class tension in a humorous vignette.
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Currie
India
Swiss Engineer Proposes Dual Canal Linking Seas
Zurich newspapers discuss a Swiss engineer’s plan to connect Switzerland to the North Sea and the Mediterranean via two canal systems. One would link Lake Constanze with Rotterdam through the Rhine, the other would join Lake Como to the Mediterranean via the Po.
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Syriss
Zurich
Switzerland
North’ Sea
Mediterranean
Lake Constante Avith Rotterdam
Rhine
Lake
Como
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Scandia Journal
A. B. Kimball
Scandia
Kansas
Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
Lothrop Publishing Company
Botan
Pishy
Helen Wyot Lamson
Canada
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
J. S. Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City
Missouri
L. Douglas
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
Arrave
MD Blanchard- Gillett Light Co
N. Halsted St
Chicago
Darleese
J. D. Brown
Mgr. Bedalla
Ria Ol ‘Thompson
Eye Water