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The Old Order Changeth
Myrtle the telephone girl foils a suicide in progress after overhearing a crisis call. A man, James P. Thornton, plans to die at his stock exchange office but Myrtle intervenes. She contacts his wife and brings him back from the brink as New Year bells ring across the city.
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Copreiani
Myrtle
Myrtie
Grand
Riverview
Riverview Exchange
Jim
Jin
Edna
Harry Forbes
Snookums
Grant
Morgue
James P. Thornton
J-A-M-E-S Thornton
J. P. Thornton, Inc
Stock Exchange Building
Stock Exchange
Hornton
James Thornton
Hnneing
Cote Fu