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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1896
Page
2
A narrator confesses to a bank defalcation and joins a secret league. He hides his crime while marrying Margaret and grappling with guilt and a rival romantic entanglement. After a planned confession leads to arrest, he is branded mad and confined, while the league continues.
In a library conversation Meldon proposes murder to cover a $100,000 embezzlement by a conspirator amid a dangerous love triangle. The narrator schemes to confront Gladys Blake to win her away, while fearing exposure and personal ruin. The tale traces guilt and escalating moral peril as a double life forms.
In Robert P Porter’s history of McKinley an 1888 Chicago convention anecdote is recounted. John Little recalls McKinley’s quiet plea to New Jersey delegates for support and to refrain from a solo bid, then asks that New Jersey cast its votes for Sherman to keep McKinley from a doomed nomination.
Mrs. A E Taylor of Buffalo a nurse for over forty years narrates a kidney disease cure story. She suffered Brights disease of the kidneys third degree with swelling and impaired sight, tried various therapies, then used three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills and recovered enough to walk unaided. She praises the pills as life saving and urges others to buy.
A legendary finance expert, a member of parliament famed for financial knowledge, is humorously tested by a witty stranger asking for a sovereign loan for a day. The exchange exposes a quick bluff and the MP's graceful, wry response in a terse, old newspaper tone.
Around the table were Mr and Mrs Abbey with Mr Andre Grau and others as the toast song rang out Pere’s a jolly good fellow. Melba’s serenade and phonograph wish for the couple ended with gifts including a $91,000 check and jewels. The newlyweds departed on the Paris with a promenade deck suite as their wedding gift from the Abbeys.
A Wisconsin man recounts a Chicago style tale of a lawyer in Menasha Max Schoetz who sued himself in a court case after swapping a horse with a milkman. The judge awarded Schoetz $23.40 and he then billed the milkman $30 in attorney fees, which were paid. The anecdote ends with a challenge to beat the odd self-suing maneuver.
A New York Medical College professor extols the human body as an animated machine and praises Warner's Safe Cure as the sole remedy for kidney trouble Bright's disease and female weaknesses. He argues decades of research culminated in a universal, proven treatment used worldwide for over twenty years.
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