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Night Under Moonlit Vows and Hoosier Hotel Antics
A fragmentary tale depicts a moonlit courtship between Margery Lee and a shadowed lover then shifts to Praxical ILLUSTRATION describing hotels as social microcosms. A Hoosier named Hoss Head outwits two city fops in a Cincinnati hotel, turning a joke into a lively scuffle and earning high regard from bystanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broedeloth
Sally
Josepling
Martha Washington
Victoria Maris
U. House
Cincinnati
Kurnel
Hempfield
John Isaiah
John Isaiah Hempfield
Hoss Head
John Isaiah Hempfield Hoss
Persimmon Post Office
Yellow County
Indiana
Sirrah
Hoss
Squire Jones
Sirrab
Peurite
Charles
Yaller County
Diggins
Lions Head
John Isaiah Hempfield Hoss Head
Fops
Harlow Case
Dorsheimer
Sandusky
Ohio
Fillmore
Mes
Case
Indian Ocean
Ceylon
England