World War II Echoes and a Bank Crash Tale of Love
Thomas Jefferson Bradley Herndon, heir to wealth, pursues Grace McKee amid high society. He quits Europe to return home, loses his fortune in a copper stock crash, and confesses love. Grace rejects marriage, but Herndon learns of a $70,000 paper value and plans to unite his feuding family at dinner with Miss McKee.
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Keely
Grace McKee
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Scotland
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Why He Changed His Avocation
Richard Le Gallienne kept long hair since youth and this drew scorn in a Liverpool accounting office. Four elder directors confronted him with a petty joke, offering three pence to fund a barber, an event said to push him toward leaving commercial life for poetry.
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Richard le Gallienne
Liverpool
Xelomn
le Gallienne
Breakfast Food Substitutes Melt Eskimo Despair
In a northern tale a husband laments dwindling blubber and worn boots while hunger looms. His wife counters with optimism, noting patent breakfast foods from magazines. She suggests a dish of flaked snow as a breakfast solution.
Unfortunates in City Bucketshops Exposed as Gambling Hubs
A New York Sun writer surveys bucketshops as symbolic gambling rooms where investors watch a wall of stock blocks alter prices. He details luxury interiors, a jarring blackboard, and the feverish crowd from dancers to messengers, ending with the ruin and misery of конце the daily patrons and their precarious margins.
Struck at Enemys Credit How Boston Man Got Even
A Boston State Street figure, Jones W. Jones, earns revenge through an Indian ally who denies his credit to banks and financial houses. The ruse drives Jones’s paper value down before the day ends, leaving his finances briefly harmed while the Indian exults. Senator Hoar is described as financially comfortable, with a steady rise in possessions over generations.
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Boston
State Street
Jones W. Jones
Th Street
Jones
Boston Journal
Senator Hoar
What He Paid To Win His Campaign In Kansas
Kansas City Journal reports Winfeld County Attorney J. E. Torrence filed an itemized campaign expense list citing intense moral provocation by the legislature. itemized charges include 35 for candidate announcement cards, 12.50 for anti campaign lie circulars, 22.50 for charitable solicitors, 3 for a Topeka editor, and 0.02 for stationary. He notes total around 306 and blames stronuous conditions and rapid pace to finish the race.
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Kansas
Winfeld
J. E. Torrence
Topeka
Truth of Old Legend Revealed by New York Sun
A woodsman drops his axe into a river while flirting with a milk maid. Mercury retrieves a golden hatchet and a silver hatchet, then the real axe. Pleased, Mercury rewards honesty with all three axes. The tale explains watered stock and the origins of the term. The woodsman later marries the milk maid.
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New York Sun
Saya
Mercury
LOG THAT DEFIED NIAGARA On the brink of the American Fall a timber log wedged mid waterfall
A long timber log from Tonawanda lumber yards lodged at the edge of Niagara Falls. It rested for days on the brink, its butt over the plunge and its small end lifted, drawing wide attention and possibly bearing limestone debris. High water later forced its release.
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Niagara Falls
New York Herald
Tonawanda
Women Bell Ringers at St Andrew's Bradfield Berkshire
At St Andrew's church in Bradfield Berkshire women now ring the church bells, the only church in the country to do so. A dearth of men and boys last year led the vicar to ask the congregation's ladies to ring, and six young women have rung regularly for about eighteen months. They find the task heavy yet have grown enthusiastic and proficient.
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St. Andrew's Church
Bradfield
Berkshire
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