The City of Purple Dreams Synopsis
A reformed tramp Fitzhugh Sutton improves in appearance after an auto wreck incident. He encounters Esther Strom a Russian anarchist who pushes him to address a meeting. He befriends Kath leen Otis but is revealed as a con artist allied with bogus stock dealer Quigg and a wheat speculator Henry Hunt earning almost thirty thousand dollars before further tragedy.
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Daniel Randolph Fitzhugh
Chicago
Esther Strom
Fitzhugh
Esther
Kathleen
Nikolay
Quigg
Henry Hunt
New York
Hunt
Symington Otis
Burton & Burton
Dan
Tate
Burton
Board of Trade
Bull Market Gambit in Wheat Trading Dramatized
In Chicago, Hunt and Fitzhugh push a bold bull strategy on Otis led wheat while market signals falter. A planned cash infusion falters as a missing draft complicates a major margin move and prompts probing doubt about the coming rebound.
The Mail for Daniel Fitzhugh and a Desperate Break
Daniel Fitzhugh receives a cache of letters from Esther revealing devotion, despair, and pleas for money for the Cause. He sends a thousand dollar draft to her, disguises a note to Hunt, and departs for a hurried rescue while Fitzhugh disappears. A ragged tramp staggers through Clark Street bars with deranged bravado.
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Esther
Randolph Street
Fitzhugh Returns From Debauch In Quiet Escape
Fitzhugh’s two week binge ends as he soberly returns to his apartment at four in the morning. He climbs six flights unseen, sheds his shabby clothes, cleans up, and retires to a silk pajama clad bed, exhausted though not physically tired. He feels as if he has chased gold only to find a rainbow.
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Fitzhugh
The only girl and Gustave Doré in Anecdotes
Saint-Saens recalls Gustave Doré as a gifted violist who played Berlioz with ease and spirit. He paints while discussing art and music, revealing a melancholy yet jovial artist who died young from heart disease worsened by his mother’s death. Johannes Wolf helped bring a violin piece to prominence.
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Gustave Dore
Berlioz
Dore
Johannes Wolf
Saint-Saens
Freshness of the Past Comic Exchange
A grocer’s reply to a wife about egg freshness yields a humorous misunderstanding. The shopper asks for fresh eggs and the grocer says absolutely, prompting a punchline about the word obsoletely and a dated newspaper quip.
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Boston Transcript
Women Win Equal Voice in Campaign Leadership at Convention
News review notes the Republican convention adopts a rules plan giving women seven seats on the national executive committee and a woman as vice chair, while preserving party unity amid varied anti and pro league stances and debates on prohibition.
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Committee On Rules
Women Suffrage Leaders Hope War Averted by 1914 Vote
Mme De Witt Schlumberger told the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress that if all women had possessed suffrage before 1914 there would have been no war. She and ten other delegates spoke on internal alliance affairs as twelve countries have since won the vote. Helen King Robinson and Lady Astor attended. Belgium sent no representation due to wartime protest issues.
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League of Nations
Wilson
Europe
Senate
Washington
Jefferson
Monroe
America
United States
Tes
Johnson
Lodge
Root
Spa
Germany
England
France
Russia
Far East
Lloyd George
Irland
Egypt
India
Frast
Geneva
Mme. de Witt Schlumberger
Union For Women Suffrage
International ‘Woman Suffrage Alliance
Mme. Schlumberger
Budapest
Astor
Josephus Daniels
United States Navy
Belgium
Belgian Women Suffrage Association
Helen King Robinson
Colorado
Dean
W. P. Weiss
Notary Public
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted for Nervous Prostration
A Binghamton woman testifies to relief after a year of nervous distress and failing medicine. The ad touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ills including nervous prostration and related symptoms.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkam
Con- E. Medicine Co
Lynn
Furniture Oil Recipe for Scratch Removal
To renew scratched wood mix equal parts salad oil and vinegar in a bottle. Shake well, apply with a soft rag and rub into the wood until scratches vanish, then polish with a soft rag for a pleasing finish.
Lift off Corns and Calluses with Freezone
Advert says Freezone quickly removes hard and soft corns and calluses between toes and bottom of feet. A tiny bottle costs little at any drug store and, with a few drops, stops pain and lifts the corn or callous out roots and all without pain. No humbug.
Sealed Proposals Advertised By Young Boston Merchant
A Boston merchant announces sealed proposals for a project not related to leap year timing, clarifying a misunderstanding tied to the phrasing in a public notice.
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Maude
Boston Transcript
Mothers urged to pick Castoria bottles for children
Parents are asked to examine every Castoria bottle, the long used remedy for infants and children, to ensure it bears the correct label. The advertisement notes Castoria has been in use for over 30 years and that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Fletcher
Cause and Effect Moralist and Penologist Exchange
A moralist notes a man can be down without being cut, while a penologist counters that jails exist for that reason. The exchange frames rehabilitation versus punishment as forces shaping behavior and social safety.
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Purple Dreams
Depths
Shere
Lincoln Parkway
Otis
Otis and Company
Haki
By Edwin Baird
F.G. Browne & Co
Daniel Fitzhugh
Lower
Clark Street
Royal Highlanders
Black Watch
Lord French
Ypres
E. F. Clipson
William J. Bryan
William Randolph Hearst
Supreme Court
Edward S. Edwards
New Jersey
San Francis’ Cage
Lane
Ebert
Bolshevists
Moscow
Perekop
Crimean Peninsula
Ismid
Gulf of Ismid
Constantinople
Black Sea
Caucasus
Batoum
Armenia
Cilicia
Thrace
Steuena
Deste
Harold Somess
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
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