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There was a young lawyer in Washington Court House, named Harry M. Daugherty, and also his brother Mai S. Daugherty, a banker. There was a little boy, Jesse W. Smith, bereft of his close relatives. The two Daughertys took it upon themselves to give the boy an education and see to his start in life. A few years passed and the boy became owner of a store. Then, in 1908, the boy married. The marriage lasted only about a year and a half, and was followed, in due sequence, by a divorce. More time passed and Lawyer Daugherty...
...upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga. One of these is smitten with an urge to paint and secures permission to copy a trio of Rembrandts which hang in the family mansion. The discovery that the priceless canvases have...
...Nearly five years have passed since the close of the most devastating of wars. The earth is still reeling like a drunken man. The inhabitants thereof are bereft of reason by the poison gas of racial antagonisms in a world that was nearly destroyed by hate, and is seeking to save itself by hate, and Israel is the greatest sufferer in these distracted days...
...plot is a triangle but it is isosceles. At the apex is the charming, magnetic feature of Mme. Morelli, who has followed a thorny path to operatic success. Richard Northcote, artist, half-paralyzed, bereft of inspiration by his separation from Mme. Morelli, and his wife Elsie (married in an absent-minded moment), complete the eternal problem...
...month or more ago Mr. Truxton Beale, formerly minister to Persia, offered $10,000 in cash prizes to young Republicans who could furnish the best platform suggestions for the coming campaign. Naturally the opposition press, under the leadership of the New York World, ridiculed a party so bereft of principles that it had to call on the college boys of the country to supply the deficiency, and the ridicule undoubtedly offset any benefits which might have been derived from the contest...