Shipboard Farce and Romance Amid Sailors Concert
On a passenger liner a shipboard concert spirals into chaos as Sam Marlowe and Eustace Hignett face a failed Tinney imitation and a dramatic exit. Billie and Jane watch, while Sam’s hoped-for consolation with Billie shifts to a tense moonlit confrontation on deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Midgeley
Bam
J. B.‘Midgeley
Sam
Love
Billie
Penge
Juan
Samuel Marlowe
Billte
The Perfect Knight on the Atlantic Crossing
Mrs Storace Hignett arrives in New York for a lecture tour with her son Eustace. Sam Mal laby Marlowe and Bream Mortimer scheme for romance aboard the Atlantic as Billie Bennett joins the voyage and accepts Sam’s proposal while Eustace stays below.
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Storace Hignett
New York
Eustace
Windles
Hignetts
Sam
Mallaby Marlowe
London
Atlantic
Bream Mortimer
Bennett
Wilhelmina Bennett
Billie
Bream
Billia
Meriden factory superintendent’s will leaves fortune to newspaper seller
The Meriden Connecticut factory superintendent left about 19 000 to a young newspaper seller who helped him. The man’s kindness to the youth is credited with inspiring the bequest. A magistrate’s quip about a drunk man and Big Ben appears in the narrative. Trust to Readers.
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Meriden
Cong
House of ‘Commons
Big Ben
Mysterious Shopper Buys Parts At Local Five and Dime
An elderly man browses a ten cent store moving from counter to counter. He purchases bolts cardboard wire and then rattles tinware. A girl wonders about a hidden scheme while another guesses he plans to assemble a automobile.
California Fig Syrup Baby Laxative Ad Purports Harmless Cure
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative to cleanse a baby’s liver and bowels. It claims the product soothes without griping, contains no narcotics, and urges mothers to insist on genuine labels with directions. A quoted quote from Newel Dwight Hillis accompanies the ad.
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California
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P. G. Wodehouse
Coneri
George H. Doran Co
Ernest
Eustace Hignett
Hullo
Frank
Mar Jowe and
Hignett
Hus
Haddocks
Gray
West
Marlowe
Kents
Napoleon
Bismarck
Shakespeare
Mariowe
Bille Bennett
Jane Hubbard
Jane
Allence
Bard
Audi
Ence
Enatice Hignett
Lomb
Sam Marlowe
Frank Tinney
Chapter
Northwestern Yeast Co
North Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL
Newel
Dwight Hille
Supreme A
American Lead Pencil Co
Thanal
Dr. Taamaut
Iets
Brey, RP Bishi
Pepe
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