How Actresses Spend Money Incomes Big Incomes
A look at how top American actresses allocate earnings. Lotta Charlotte Crabtree spent on a trotting horse stable and kept Bonoma Girl. Minnie Maddern Fiske built a vast library. Ethel Barrymore buys old portraits and sculptures. Maud Adams invests in farming. Maxine Elliott buys imported gowns and raises pedigreed dogs with Nat Goodwin. income supports personal hobbies and investments rather than frivolous excess.
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Lotta
Charlotte Crabtree
Boston
Bonoma
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Ethel Barrymore
Maud Adama
Maxine Hiliott
Nat Goodwin
Temptation Tests Tommy by River Bathing Suit Plan
A boy named Tommy disobeys a parental ban on river swimming. He returns home with clear water signs and explains he brought a bathing suit because he feared temptation. The mother questions the logic as Tommy reveals his preventive intent.
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Tommy
To My Husband In An Appropriate Place
A widow asked a monument maker to inscribe a tombstone with the line “To my husband in an appropriate place.” The sculptor agreed, and the stone was engraved with that exact wording. The Liverpool Post reports the anecdote as a cautionary tale about misinterpretation.
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Liverpool Post
Yarmouth Bloater Sets World Record Week Harvest
Yarmouth, an English fishing town, records a weekly take of 76,009,090 herrings worth about 250000 dollars. The season shows strong returns. the quarter to September tops the 1996 period by 250000 dollars. The piece includes a quip about stamina and the colonel’s long attendance at social and political circles.
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Yarmouth Bloatere
Yarmouth Bloater
Fragmented Exchange Reveals Conflicting Claims
A terse exchange presents a dispute over claims of a relationship ending. One speaker asserts a woman accepted gifts and then ended things, while another insists the claim is false. A third party corroborates, stating the claim is true, though the responder denies it.
The New Press Agent Dodge
An actress arrested for speeding describes her car to a reporter saying the vehicle is superb and noting it occupies at least two front-page columns, as a young man asks its worth.
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Dodge
Courtroom Teletype Fragment on Foreman and Testimony
In a fragmented courtroom passage the foreman directs actions regarding testimony by Jim Boggs. The dialogue references instructions, confusion, and a claim that Boggs told the truth at one point, implying procedural debate over handling a key statement.
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Jedge
Jim Bog
Love's Way Compromise Turns Waiting Into A Week
A witty exchange between lovers ends with a playful compromise. She vows not to marry for ages, he pledges endless waiting, and they settle on a single week as their shared fate. The brevity of their pact becomes their lighthearted turning point.
Somniloquist Husband Delivers Sleep Speech Gag
A witty quip describes a husband who speaks in his sleep, a humorous twist on somnambulism. The joke plays on the idea that he not only wanders but delivers speeches in slumber, prompting laughs at the idea of a sleep talking public speaker.
On the Wedding Journey He Otto Plot Confusion
A cryptic note references a wedding journey with a remark about belief and waiting for a tunnel. The fragment hints at tension between two characters named Otto and a companion, suggesting a confrontation or twist. No clear dates or locations are given in the text.
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Otto
Infallible plaster pitch at sportsmen event ends in pun
A country maiden hawks a sticking plaster at a sportsmen's exhibition. Her earnest sales patter promises permanent adhesion for abrasions. A passerby asks what happens when the sore heals. The vendor replies, humorously, that it is infallible for our heels.
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Enthus
Adirondacks
Maine
Sponges to Save Champagne Trade
A wholesale dealer explains how champagne makers in Reims use sponges to catch wine from broken bottles. The recovered wine is reclarified and bottled again as a second quality drink, saving valuable product through daily plant checks and cask storage.
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Reims
The Uncongenial Pump and Other Odd Snatches
A Pittsubrgh reader recalls Francis Murphy the temperance reformer and a clubman’s witty retort about a drink in a tavern. A German prison tale, bread and water and a cookery book aim to break a convict’s spirit. A pretty girl with an English flag prompts a French quip about obstruction. A whisky distiller navigates moral labels. Witty observations on writing and changing phrases close the piece.
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Francis Murphy
Pittspurg
Murphy
Huber
Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York Authority Certificate
North Dakota Commissioner certifies the Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York is fully empowered to transact fire insurance in North Dakota until December 4, 1908, after filing sworn statements and charter copies. Authenticates official seal, dated February 4, 1908.
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Continental Snurance Company of
New York
State of
North Dakota
Insurance
Bismarck
N. D
New
Whertas
Continental Fire Insurance Company of
N. Y
J. B. C. Cooper
A. D
E. C. Cooper
Looking for the man who swiped a sixteenth pound turkey
A passenger quips about a breakfast theft as a kitchen window turkey goes missing in a humorous exchange. The fragment shifts to a somber note about native Hawaiians, noting a drastic population decline from 108,000 in 1836 to about 20,000 by the present, reflecting rapid demographic loss.
This Little Time Poem Fragment
A brief, reflective verse fragment contemplates laughter and tears in life. The speaker questions what may come after, noting that only God knows who keeps the years. The lines read as a lyric meditation on time and fate.
Not His Fault Ducks and Gun Talk in Quirky Exchange
A terse exchange plays on humor and science as a speaker notes the gun’s loud report scares birds away. The dialogue shifts to broader ideas about human impact, mentioning ship canals and a reflection on digging graves with words, all in a brisk, ironic tone.
Has Found River's Sources by Sven Hedin
Dr Sven Hedin announces discovery of Brahmaputra and Indus sources. He identifies the Brahmaputra as the Kubitsampso rising from a vast glacier along the northern Himalayas. He claims the Markumshu, long thought the source, is only a small western tributary.
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Sven Hedin
Brahmaputra
Indus
Himalayas
Hobson's Choice. Two cane candidates questioned by electors
In a recent contest an elector asks what others think of the two cane candidates. The reply expresses relief that only one of them can win, reflecting skepticism about the field and the outcome of the election.
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