Bankrupt’s Clever Dinner Party Draws Creditors
Vienna social circle recounts a dinner where Fritz, a large factory owner and debtor, announced his bankruptcy after a dramatic threat to shoot. Amid wine and laughter, creditors signed a six month extension to avoid his suicide, and the party resumed with a hollow air.
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Austrian Empire
Frits
Fritz
Bravol
Potato bagging riddle ends with odd rate joke
A Pittsburgh dispatcher recalls a potato bagging gag where a bagger refuses low offers and sticks to a cent per bushel, while the proprietor teases that the man only works when he has an oven counting bagged produce, a misread arithmetic bit from the station.
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Boas
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Pumping plants at Combina tion shaft cost millions
The Valanchie report lists hydraulic and steam pump installations at multiple shafts. Costs range from 400000 to 3000000 for the Combina tion shaft, Union shaft 650000, Yellow Jacket's wharf 400000, and Forman elnltenet 400000, noting the Chamtyet pumping system as one of the most powerful.
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Explore Rio Grande Western Rail Way Routes
Promotes travel on the Rio Grande Western Railway offering three routes and scenic views. Encourages sending 25 cents to J H Bennett Salt Lake City for a brochure titled Utah, a Peep Into the Mountain Walled Treasury of the Gods.
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Self Made Washington Organist Builds Vast Business
Hen n F Beatty, famed organ and piano maker from Washington New Jersey, rose from penniless plow boy in 1870 to a major entrepreneur. He now reports 80 years of growth reaching nearly 100000 in finances and organs with plans to sell 200000 more in ten years, targeting a 20 million business. Read his advertisements.
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Springfield Republican
Paris Dandies And British Laundries Debunked In Mock Heroics
A Parisian linen blanchissage tale from M Bourget is debunked by investigators as a London fashion artefact. The Gymnase play mocks punctual British launderers while Duc de Morny’s claim is echoed by a chemist who handles London orders.
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False Jamaican prophet claims healing river power
A self styled prophet on Jamaica declares a river blessed with healing waters by midweek. He boasts a new Bethesda and profits run into thousands daily as locals flock to witness the ceremony and purchase cures.
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Jamaica
Bethesda
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