Giraffe Hide Value Versus Notable Domestic Intrigue
In a house story within the gossip column, Aunt Aimee navigates a family upheaval as Tom and Cecy plot a fake letter to trap her. Ernest Salvius appears, proposing to Aimee at dinner, while a Reuters-like narrator notes the couple’s engagement. The tale shifts to a separate note on giraffe hides used as shields and siembok whips in Africa.
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Tom
Cecy
Aimee
Loomis Elton
Aunt Aimee
Nell
Little Joe
Master Tom
Sis
Wells
Papa
Jocelyn
Cocy
Miss Astley
Mr. Salvius
Ernest
Ernest Salvius
Captain Astley
Africa
Duke of Northumberland Fools Rail Officials with Sooty Prank
The wealthy Duke travels third class on railways and is mocked by officials who fill his compartment with chimney sweeps and sacks of soot. He counters by buying each sweeps a first class ticket and placing sacks in a first class carriage, then proceeds to the booking office.
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Duke of Northumberland
Millionaire Plays Ball With Arabs of the Street
A wealthy upper Fifth Avenue man famed for his fortune and Harvarded son and Parisian-destined daughter recalls his street ball roots. He enjoys polo and still coaches a ragged East Side crew now wearing new uniforms. An 11 year old captain explains one regular player was missing from the day’s game.
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Upper Fifth Avenue
New York Herald
Harvard
Paris
Ward
Questio
The Expulsion Replay of Uncle Phil Armour
A two chapter tale traces P. D. Armour as a Syracuse student expelled for a buggy ride with a seminary girl. Thirty years later a Chicago magnate meets the old professor who admits he protested the expulsion as unjust and Armour donates a large check to aid the academy.
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FP. D. Armour
Phil” Armour
P. D. Armour
Syracuse
N. Y
Philip
Armour
Chicago
Mr. Armour
Academy
Self-Defense Banter Between Wife of Cavalry Officer and Infantry Lieutenant
A witty exchange features a cavalry officer’s wife and an infantry lieutenant. The wife teases about plains Indians while the lieutenant replies that Indians chase the cavalry, not them, in a light, period-tinged dialogue.
Little too neat tale in old humor style
In a humorous dialogue Mrs. Jason recalls a woman who kept goldfish exceptionally tidy by bathing them every Saturday night. The scene shifts to a courtroom mood as Pretty Good Evidence prompts a lawyer and a witness with brisk Irish banter about truth.
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Jason
Women sculptors rise with Mary Lawrence in Chicago
New York correspondence highlights women sculptors Elm Mary Lawrence and peers who studied in Paris and under Augustus St Gaudens. It notes Lawrence helped model Columbus with changes by St Gaudens and describes Peddie Beveridge and Kahne Beveridge at work on related pieces The Devil’s Wife and The Devil’s Victim.
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New York
Chicago
Court of Honor
Mary T. Lawrence
Augustus St. Gaudens
Columbus
Miss Lawrence
Paris
Julian Atelier
Lawrence
Mr. St. Gaudens
Art Students’ League
St. Gaudens
Diana
Ures
Miss Peddie
Kahne Beveridge
Seventeenth Street
Baltimore
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Twenty-fifth Street
Cnghoy Founder
Kuehne Beveridge
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