The HGH Pliers and the Pace of Modern Spendthrifts
A feature on how young men chase status and debt, with examples of Sylvester Young of Louisville and Harry L. Howard of Burlington. The piece traces how extravagance leads to borrowing, embezzlement risk, or flight, noting the role of guarantee firms in追追 pursuing defaulters and recounting Howard’s fall from affluent beginnings to arrest in New York. It also mentions a separate Japanese court case over historic toll rights granted in 1614 to the Suminokura family and their pursuit of $980,000 in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester Young
Dick Swiveller
Harry
Howard
Japan
Kioto
G. Suminokura
Kitagaki
Ryoi Suminokura
Takasegawa
Sagogawa
Suminokura
Kioto Fu
New Jersey Milkmaid Wears Her Own Designed Costume
Miss Mary F. Soper of Lodi in Bergen County earns a premium as champion milk maid. She milks and cares for a blooded Jersey cow on her farm with her father, and designs a picturesque outfit combining blue flannel blouse a kilt skirt trousers rubber boots and a broad brimmed hat. The ensemble costs 1.40 plus silver buttons from an old overcoat. Neighbors approve and talk about it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary F. Soper
Lodi
Saddle River Township
Bergen County
N. J
Jersey
Miss Potter On Stage And In Courtroom Affairs
A comic tale of Gertrude Whiting Potter, Chicago millionaire’s daughter, whose romances with Bugese Donnivant and F Lee Rust ended in annulments and marriages to Julius Daniels. A separate note covers a Tyrolean Drave valley landslide endangering locals and a Liverpool prank that cost a joker forty six pounds plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Potter
Gertrude Whiting Potter
O W. Potter
Chicago
Bugese Donnivant
Illinois
Gertrude
Drave
Liverpool
Fatal locomotive boiler blast at Oyster Bay kills engineer
Engineer James Donaldson died when his locomotive boiler exploded at Oyster Bay station as his wife waved farewell. The crash killed the brakeman and fireman, injured three others, and wrecked the 46 ton engine. The precise cause may remain undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Donaldson
Oyster Bay
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Kentucky
New York
Harry L. Howard
New Jersey
Miss Soper
Lee Rust
Gertrude Potter
Lee
Beloit
Wis
Julius Clarke Daniels
New York City
Julius
Rust
Daniels
Johnson
Andpyne
Mrail
Johnson & CO
Hostox
Scott
Carter
Bane
Comeny
Chamberlain Institute and Female College
Randolph
N.Y
Fas
Foears
Chautauqua Lake
Aione
Business College
Adil
Warren Book Bindery
Warren
Erasample
Louisville, Ky
Theel
North Fourth St.eel
Green
Philadelphia
Germany
Englan
Prince
Austria
Orvies Horras
TD Dkeclelland
S. D
Moritz Salm
McClellan
Butler
Abs
GoSpan. Butler. Pa
Sagafalin
Sap
Mangarryt Kelley
Ashley, Delaware Co
Obio
Noy
Ness
Ingipe
MoChellan
Salata Trentivert
Eearest
W Kelley Son
Armstrong
Rm Dane
Somerset
McClallan
Bath
Linesville
Glace
Larry
Allegheny
Fowler
Moodus
Conn
Geo. S.davis
Drag Faten
Second and
Liberty Streets
Boston Shoe Store
Diamond Block
Warren, Pern’a
N. Greenland
Ey & Gay Furniture
Grand Rapids
Nelson Cgreenland Undertaker and
Exchange Block
Warren, Pa
Lynn
Mass
New Turk World
The
Home Journal
Boston
W. E. Skinner
Washington St
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