The Joker and the Canal Bill Mystery Unfolds
A financier narrator recalls trusting lawyers with bills and a missing file that hid house bill 427 granting a canal commission power to condemn. After discovering the stake tied to Roebuck Langdon and Saxe, he confronts betrayal, shifts leverage, and schemes to leverage a path into power and a prized Travelers Club seat. The tale blends corrupt finance, personal vendettas, and a plan to marry for status.
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Saxe
Browne, Saxe & Einstein
State Capitol
Mr. Blacklock
Langdon
Roebuck
Melville
State Canal Commission
Roebuck and Langdon
Canal Commission
National Coal
Roumanian Laborer Life and Global String Demand
A Roumanian laborer’s harsh, crowded villages and hard seasons are described with stark detail. The article contrasts peasant living with sparse interiors. It shifts to explain common myths about gut strings, clarifying they come from sheep intestines and discuss rising demand for musical instrument strings in North America, Mexico, and the south.
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Roumania
France
R.huyett
North America
South
Mexico
Kansas City Journal
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David Graham Phillips
Blacklock
Waterloo
Mowbray Langdon
Sam Ellersly
Travelera Club
Sam el- Jersly
Mowbray Langton
Sam
Lincdon
Good Jone
Promenade
Monsense
Ersay
Matt
The
Willoughby
Peach
Piccadilly
Vit Blacklock
Bramwell Ellersly
Bromwell Elleraly
Ellerslys
Ansigna
Biu