A CANDIDATE FOR RESPECTABILITY
Blacklock, a powerful financier, seeks public respectability and social entry through a Travelers Club invitation and a marriage plan while maneuvering a web of debts, partners, and rival financiers. His scheming friend Langdon warns of risk as Sam Ellersly aids in shifting assets and social buys amid a tense casino-like social scene at Morris Park and the Broadway circle.
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Jim
Morris Park
Colug
Innstead
Sammy
Master’s geography lesson ends with a pupil’s Malay misunderstanding
A schoolmaster tests knowledge of the Sulu archipelago. A bright pupil defies labels, saying islanders could be fish, and the master, shocked, learns the boy’s claim that an archipelago is a sea dotted with islands. The exchange leaves the teacher wary of future questions.
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Asia
Philippines
Sulu
Rush Message From Modern Society Anecdote
A well dressed young man at a telegraph office asks to rush a message saying it is very important. The operator assures it will go right through. The note reads Henry still loves his little wife and wishes she could be with him.
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Mr. Langdon
Lanedon
Finance
Langdon
Blacklock
Newyperc
Sammy
Eugies
Memson
Miss Elleraly
Sam
Semerelyorother
Miss Ellersly
Chad
Tou
Doe
Bart
Garl
Henry
New Haven Man Fined After Proposing Spree
Michael Delugt told Judge Thayer he punched Emme Goss in the nose to stop her constant marriage proposals. He produced letters starting My Very Sweetheart and My heart to burning for you. The judge fined him ten dollars and he vowed never to wed.
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Conn
Michael Delugt
Thayer
Emme Goss
Michael
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Mowbray Langdon
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Mowghli
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