The Theoretical Financier and the Commission Claim
A banking chief recalls a surreal office encounter with a well dressed intruder who presented a copy of How to Get Rich Without Working and demanded a commission. The man touts a fictitious method that supposedly spawns 8,000 adherents and brokers’ commissions, ending with the banker paying ten dollars. The tale underlines cautious wit over grandiose schemes and ends with a punchline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inncheon
Jim
Norcross, Jr
Prof
D. Poor
New York
Panama Ditch Disaster Lingers In Ruinous Wake
The Springfield Republican depicts the Panama Canal project as a colossal waste with wrecked wharves, rusting machinery, hundreds of steam shovels buried in vegetation, and nearly a thousand miles of track now overgrown. Locomotives and dump-carts lie idle as the vast excavation erodes and the famous scar on the isthmus fades from view.
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Panama Isthmus
Springfield Republican
New York Cat Rescued After Perilous Window Sill Ordeal
A New York cat perched on a fourth story window ledge was trapped when the window shut behind it. Neighbors gathered as a chorus of feline cries rose from the pavement while rescuers freed the frightened animal. The cat’s claws were deeply embedded in rotten wood upon rescue.
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New York Sun
New York
Louisiana items condenseliona from across the State
A Louisiana round up reports the coroner’s jury ruling that Andy Bowen’s death came from brain concussion with neglect by the Auditorium Club for lack of ring padding. Other items note two drownings near Marksville, a severed head found near Tickfaw, a saloon shooting in Shreveport, a buggy accident in Houston, prohibition vote at Welsh, councilman graft trials in New Orleans, a pardoned criminal, and various local incidents including a violent husband, postmaster arrest, and hog-killing season ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auditorium Athletic Club
New Orleans
Andy Bowen
Finnoy
Bowen
Lavigne
Shad Bowen
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Texas Street
Charter Oak
Buck
Hunter
W. H. Hunter, JR
Levee Street
Shreveport
Whited & Wieless
Eon M. Carter
Texas and
Spring Streets
Dreyfus & AU
Corner Spring and
Crockett Streets
Gizar
Dale
Oun Ao
Panama
Tommy
Texas Siftings
Louisiana
Condenseliona
J T. Leland
Charles H. Brownlee
Soverign
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Alexandria
Monrove
Triune
Spring Bayou
Marksville
Paulin Toussin
Toussin Lavilli
Tickfaw Station
Ilinois Central
Craig
F. F. Siskorn
Central Railroad of Georgia
Georgia
Sazarac
William Caperton
Daisy Hunter
Houston
Mrs. Caperton
Miss Hunter
Welsh
Jennings
Thrifiley
Kane
George H. Howard
G. H. Holmes
M. H. Pulvermacher
St. Louis
M. A. Morris
Criminal District Court of
Orleans
Sarah Lizzie
Annie Laurie Posey
Alabama
Genevieve
Henry Ring
Recorder
Gov. Foster
H. A. Davidson
Calcasien Parish
Benjamin P. Hebert
St. Mary Parish
T. H. Dumesneil
Franklin
W. &. Steel
State
KE. B. Hughes
John Fogarty
T. H. Hutton
Bossier
Postoffice
Frey
W. J. Lee
Morris & Dickson
Texas St
Shreveport, la
C. A. Alston
Crockett and
Herman Lcee
Vicksburg
Galveston
Merchants 2 Farmers Bank
L. M. Carter
E. B. Rand
Carden
Paidito
S.B. McCutchen
T. L. Stringfellow
Cashier
Spring
Milam Streets
W.J. Hutchinson
Shrevenport
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