Babbitt’s Bohemia Ends In a Household Reckoning
A tale of Bob Babbitt’s plunge into Bohemian drink and back, ending with a sober resolve and a shattered night. Jessie confronts the change, a quarrel of verse and vice, and the couple’s fragile bond tests the pull of reform vs old habits. The Sullivan County memory frames their temptation and the final clash.
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Babbitt
Sullivan County
Jessie
Mountain Squint
Bob
Abraham Lincoln
Darwin
Omar
Jess
Seine
Bobbie
Suel
Legless Boy's Exploit Saves Two Boys From Drowning
Joe Gilligan eighteen rescues Alexander Patterson and Augustus Monahan twelve when their boat capsizes in a ten foot deep gravel pit pond near Morris Plains New Jersey. Despite severe leg and arm loss from a trolley accident he swims with stumps and one arm, pulling Patterson ashore and then saving Monahan before guiding both boys to safety and his home for dry clothes.
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Joe Gilligan
Morris Plains
N. J
Alexander Patterson
Augustus Monahan
Lackawanna
Patterson
Monahan
Gilligan
Giligan
Brooklyn
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