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...Story. Old even then, a man of fire whose life was dying away, Eliphalet Greer sat in his counting house. All the ships he could see from his window, spreading their intricate rigging against the New England sky, belonged to him. Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected...
...Eliphalet sent the boy Jervaile to kill Parton in a tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said...
...brother of the late William B. Leeds, "Tin-plate King"; in Manhattan, of tuberculosis of the lungs. The bulk of his estate, valued at several millions, will go to Joy Leeds, twelve-year-old adopted daughter. Two years ago, Mrs. Leeds died from a fall from the fifth-story window of their home...
...located in downtown Manhattan-a neat, clean little establishment. Samuel and his brother William (now President of the Childs Co.) believed that they could make money on a small place, flagrantly scrubbed, which sold good food cheaply. They put the name of Childs in white letters on the window. They knew that the sort of U. S. men who would eat there enjoyed having their food set before them by young females with clean fingernails. Therefore they procured waitresses, dressed them in white...
...Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries begins, early...