Seventeen Thousand Dollar Dinner At $252 Place
A dinner at the Biltmore drew Charlie Gehring, formerly a reporter, now connected with the Hotel Review, into a discussion framed as high flown verbiage about a lavish event.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
10
A dinner at the Biltmore drew Charlie Gehring, formerly a reporter, now connected with the Hotel Review, into a discussion framed as high flown verbiage about a lavish event.
Fragmentary passage mentions Jack McB Bowian of Hillmore and Lew Wallick of Wallicks. It hints at culinary trends and a bulter’s dish in country hotels. The text is garbled and lacks a coherent event or outcome.
Post dinner, Distromil Jim Brady and other guests are described amid a scene of snapping and chasing artifacts. Vaudeville acts, a Broadway insider, and a hotel gossip thread through the night as theater lure and odd purchases spark chatter about celebrity wealth and far flung cabals.
A medicinal advertisement promotes TONSILINE as essential for sore throat relief and general home medicine chests. It touts hospital and pharmacy availability with prices 25, 60 cents and $100 for a larger size, urging readers to keep a bottle at home for emergencies.
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