Bets and Barbs in a New York Café Tale
In New York on a July morning two sporting men argue over a wine bet. They wager 75 dollars to see who tells where the Washington Monument will fall when it collapses, with a waiter serving wine to settle the bet pending a final decision. Mizner’s quip about a Broadway comic ends the tale.
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New York
Janes Poy
Conentan
Sinnott
Jack
Alan
Mizner
Che
John Dinas Ton-Fack
Washington Monument
Central Park Scandal Notes And Traffic Through New York
Two women photograph young children in Central Park to sell portraits, a scheme praised for novelty but drawing attention to wealth enclaves and stroller crowd life. Motorists report chaotic Fourth of July scenes, a German taunts a reporter, and a Dodge trouble on Riverside Drive reveals a stalled car and a coal price spike with Japan import plans.
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Childeen
Central Park
Fink «Vende
New York
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Knickerborkes
Times Square
Conelind Townsend
Mainstic
Chantur
Ina Dyver
Joan Kent
Frog
Jyan
Joe
Missing Boy From Clarksburg Seeks Return Home
A 16 year old boy left home around June 17 in Norfolk style knee pants coat blue cap light hair brown eyes and a burn scar on his right wrist. Father Teodur Yanik Graselli Clarksburg West Virginia issues reward of five dollars and asks for any information to contact Bell phone 785-3.
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Teodar Yanik
Graselli
Clarksburg
W. Va
Bell
Elijah the Second and the Nigerian "chosen people"
London dispatch reports Nigeria faces a rogue preacher calling himself Elijah the Second. A supposed Christian convert claims miracles and healing by water, sells spiritual cures, and promotes a doctrine declaring blacks the chosen people destined to inherit the earth, alarming authorities.
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Associated Press
London
Nigeria
Elijah
England
Willah
Willoughby Arrives at Peking as New Chinese Constitution Talks Begin
Dr W C Willoughby of Solns Hopking University, legal adviser to the Chinese government, reached Peking the day before Yuan Shih Kai's death. He will advise on constitutional matters for Li Yuanming's new administration and had met Vice President Lo Yuan Hing, already familiar with his views on governance.
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Associated Press
Peking Jilydh
Wo W. Willoughby
Solns-Hopking University
Peking
Yuan Shi-Kai
Willoughby
Li Yuan-ming
Wrougby
Willowehby
Lo Yuan Hing
Easy Way to Gain Weight and Strength Ad
An old advertisement touts Sargol as a safe inexpensive method to gain 1 to 20 pounds by improving digestion and fat absorption. It promises rapid weight gain, sturdy cheeks and shoulders, and claims the product is harmless with a money back guarantee. Notes mention nervous indigestion and the olive oil note from Spain.
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Shin
Caise
Dunnes
Wa Wen
AMI Teachiu
Itantes
Feed Supply Store Ad Highlights Cement Goods
G M West promotes cement blocks lime plaster cement sand and sewer pipe with competitive prices, quality, and service. The advertisement lists two phone contacts for the Feed Supply Store.
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G. M. West
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Seventh Streets
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GOFF
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Riverside Drive
Tata
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Dodge
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Room
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Baltimore & Onto
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Spencerized
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Tional Basah
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Sou
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Clarksburg, W. VA
the Union Dentists
W. Pike ST
Milton
Davis, Burkham
Masonic Temple
R. T. Lowndes Hardware Department
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