Heart Of A Flirt Escapes Into South Side Show
Polly and Edgar attend a two week display at White City with Edgar reserving seats. He leaves Polly to fetch ice cream, then vanishes amid a crowd. Police warn her as darkness falls and Polly, tearful, is escorted by Cook and Leonard’s mother to discover what happened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White City
Jor Edgar
Edgar
Polly
Edgar Montmorency
Arm of the Law
Cook
Leonard
Rare old letters fetch high prices for stamps
A plea to search attics and trunks for old envelopes from 1845 to 1875 to sell to a stamp collector. He seeks stamps on original envelopes, focuses on early U S issues to Canada and Britain colonies, and offers to pay well with return of unsold items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aend
U. S
Canada
Stamos
Polly Learns the Truth Behind the Silver Plot at Ridgeway House
Polly discovers Edgar Montmorency and two accomplices are arrested at Ridgeway House after a staged fireworks plan to obtain a silver safe key. Cook exposes the scheme as Leonard and Polly’s supposed romance aimed to trap the criminals. Polly, humiliated, remains estranged from Leonard for weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
Mr. Ridgeway
Lincoln Park
Cook
Edgar Montmorency
Leonard
Minister’s Amusing Memory Lapse Meets New Housemaid
A pannier tale features a minister who cannot recall meeting a familiar face on the street. After polite chat about the weather he admits ignorance and learns the woman is his new housemaid. The story plays on public figures mixing with domestic life.
Refrain From Talking Delights Ex Concertgoers
Two ladies seated at the Ex enjoyed a band concert. A placard on the stand read Refrain from talking. One woman, curious, looked at the refrain and returned laughing that it urged silence.
Witty Sayings and Sentiments From a Small Town Church
A church service features a clergyman’s quip laden sermon as ushers guide two hotel travelers into a pew. Jokes cover marriage, smoking, insurance, cracker thievery warnings, and light social satire about couples and neighbors. Bill adds humor on personal accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
Appollos
Grand Bank district life and industry profile from Grand TFaNs to Lewisporte
The district around Grand TFaNs hosts the largest pulp ad paper mill in the world operated by Anglo Newfoundland Development Company with Botwood as the principal shipping port. The area supports lumbering fishing mercantile firms two high schools a hospital Bank of Nova Scotia telegraph railway and steamboat facilities with three assembly members in the House and seaboard lighthouses fog alarms public wharves and breakwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Tfans
Qwillingate
Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company
Botwood
Labrador
KP Twillingate
St. John's
Bank of Nova Scotia
L. A
Lewisporte
House of Assembly
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Istandard Manufacturing Co ED
ST. JO
Prof. .S. Crosse
Logan Ave
Winnipeg
Man
E. J. Linfield
T'gate
P.O. Box
George Reid
J. McIntyre
Nfld Gov't Railway
Nfld Gov't. Railway
Marcia Montaigne
R.S.V.P
Leonhard
Nomal
Bill
AE. Hickman Co.ltd
Boston
Montreal
National Oil Products Sc
St. John’s
Distributors OF
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
Arthur Ebsary
Newfoundland
Twillingate
Notre Dame Bay
Ashertes
Hotae Dame
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