Wall Street Panic Fueled by Brownley and Beulah Sands
Beulah Sands seeks investment guidance from Brownley to save her Virginia father’s fortunes. Brownley uses her funds and Randolph backing to push sugar stocks, declaring large profits as a market panic unfolds. Barry Conant’s selling drives a crash, Beulah’s father and Beulah herself fall into crisis, and Brownley’s rise continues amid ominous signs.
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Bob Brownley
Wall Street
Jim Randolph
Randolph & Randolph
Brownley
Randolph
Beulah Sands
Virginia
Reinhart
Miss Sands
Barry Conant
Standard Oil
Sugar
Bob
Bulls
New York
Prownley
Anti-Peoples’ Trust
Gambling and a famed old Madame at Monte Carlo
The piece recounts how Monte Carlo paid Mamma Viaud three hundred thousand to stop playing roulette after decade of winning. It describes gambling among women rising worldwide, the dangers of addiction, and Viaud’s precise method that led to a large, orderly payoff and the wheel’s defect being discovered.
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Monte Carlo
Philadelphia
North American
The Easy Job Hunter and Elusive Labor Market
A Sedalia Capital reflection argues against seeking only easy jobs and notes how few such positions exist. The piece cites examples of people who insist on ideal roles, hindering practical work, and lists numerous old fashioned character definitions related to flirtations and social behavior.
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Sedalia
Bullets as Currency in Abyssinia Raise Alarm Over Militarism
A British consul reports bullets, specifically Gras cartridges, are used as currency in Abyssinia at 1 to 10 value with cents. The system allows purchasing power for beers and treats, signaling rising militarism under Negus Negusti. Other forms of money include Maria Theresa dollars and Menelik dollars amid colonial concern.
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Abyssinia
Freaks of bursting boilers on railroad locomotives
A remote-era engineer warns of the immense danger when boilers explode on freight engines. He recalls an explosion on a Baltimore and Ohio line in West Virginia where a large boiler overpowered the engine frame, leapt across the track, and caused multiple spectacular shifts before the crash killed both crew members.
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Indianapolis
Baltimore
Lucky
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
West Virginia
Portrait of art taste and easy jobs critique in one story
A Chicago speaker recalls a wealthy friend boasting of a prized painting and a bet on its identification. The tale yields a social critique on elite taste and the average citizen’s indifference, followed by views on easy-job seekers and moral character through a series of sharp character sketches.
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Charles E. Tripp
Chicago
Washington Herald
Europe
America
What Is a Flirt A Round of Victorian Answers
A Chicago Record Herald roundup notes England's flirt question provoked many replies. Prize essays describe a flirt as a misguided person seeking love without risk, gatekeepers of love, a indecisive Cupid shopper, or a social wasp who earns little but causes scratches.
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Cupid
England
London
Chicago Record-Herald
Fairy tale casket yields gold sequins shared by three honest men
A London Telegraph correspondent relates how an oriental casket bought by an antique dealer and repaired by a craftsman hid a double bottom with gold sequins worth about 500 dollars. A Parisian buyer, the dealer, and the workman each received a fair share after a Solomonlike police verdict.
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London Telegraph
M. Maurice
Solomon
Antiquary
Friend of Iron Horse Remembers Steam Locomotives
A veteran railroad manager recalls steam power’s romance and the living presence of the locomotive as electricity overtakes rail travel. He laments the dead yard fate of steam and praises the old iron horse for its motion, character, and the scenery it framed in the landscape.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Iron Horse
Mississippi
Quaint Cuban Town Opposes Railway in Sancti Spiritus
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Sancti Spiritus, Cuba’s oldest white settlement after Barracao and Trinidad, preferred saddle mules and carts to a railroad. A public vote denied passage of a trunk line, prompting a later shift to attract rail service with a branch line. The town forebore the railway, fearing population changes and upheaval.
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Sancti Spiritus
Cuba
Barracao
Trinidad
Chicago Record-Herald
H. 8. Harris
Ayuntamento
Havana
Santiago
Zaza del Medio
Boy and girl dispute meaning of Amen in family joke
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a boy asking his sister what Amen means and a girl replying not to touch it. When the mother asks the girl, she repeats the line, leading to a mistaken but charming exchange about the phrase so let it be.
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Astor House
World Building
Bob
Beulah
Broadway
Union Square
Fourteenth Street
Fourth Avenue
Beulah Sands
Forty-second Street
Twenty-sixth Street
Madison
Fifth Avenue
Grand Central
Fortieth Street
Fate
Fortieth
Tit
Detroit Free Press
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Hiss
New Street
Wall
Trinity Churchyard
Ley
Beulah Sands-Brownley
Reyes
Robert Brownley
Thomas Reinhart
Hunter
New Haven Road
Miss Rosa Lindsay
York County
Yorkville
Winnie Davis
Flirt
Enterprise
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