The Manicure Girl and the Bowery Bridegroom
A Belveigh hotel manicure girl recounts larcenous romance adventures in New York. She juggles a scheming escort, a wary mother, and a plucky plan to trap two romance seekers, culminating in a cheeky wedding invite and a show of daring social improvisation.
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Hotel Belveigh
Cassie Chadwick
Hippodrome
Billy
Mr. Newverdie
Paris hoax fools politicians in centennial tribute
A French paper forged a letter from a non existent committee inviting senators and deputies to celebrate the centenary of a fictitious author Hegesippe Simon. Fifteen senators and nine deputies accepted, praising the imaginary figure. The hoax exposed, France mocks the vain politicos and warns on careful secretary selection.
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Paris
John Regan
Hegesippe Simon
France
Navajo Visitors Question Portraits’ Spirit Release
Karl Moore recounts an Albuquerque studio visit by six Navajo men who believed a medicine man's soul could be imprisoned in a portrait. He describes tearing the frame print to free the spirit, an action they approved after the ceremony and left without suspicion of other copies or negatives.
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Methuselah
Tiffany's
Mr. Lear
Singer
Indiana
New York
Bessie
Charley’s
Frank
Grandpa
Mr. Hardy
Grace
Mother
Albuquerque
N. M
Karl Moore
Luncheon Prank At Players Club
Rutger Jewett, NY literary figure, hosts a luncheon at Germany park. A club attendant presents a guest with a long envelope provoking laughter. The guest hides it, claiming it is a rejected elegy from Scribbler's editor. Jewett laments poetry's decline.
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Rutger Jewett
New York
Scribbler’s
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