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Leopold Zimmermann has lived for three-quarters of a century and he has often played a lone hand. A peddler, with a willow basket full of shoe strings and suspenders, driving bargains in a German accent on the doorsteps of Manhattan. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1870. A thriving broker, with offices on Wall Street where the New York Stock Exchange now stands. In those days (the '80s) the sign above the door said Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices...
...sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth $1,250,000, on Felstead in the Calcutta Sweepstake. A girl named Helm who works in a London brewery won $625,000 in the Stock Exchange Pool. A stock broker had held the ticket on Black Watch (worth $10,000) but had sold it to a customer...
...said to write all about her unrefined past, and how she traveled with a Carnaval Company until a polo player of the wealthy classes gave her a check and sent her to New York to get into the follies with a letter to his broker. And she did, but not through the broker. Because it seems that most of the girls in the Follies would be passed up by practically every broker in New York before Mr. Ziegfield has glorified them. And Dorothy says that about all Mr. Ziegfield does to glorify them is to get them to give...
Yolpone-MIDDLE AGE BROKER, ALLEGED SICK, DISAPPEARS AT OOM CULT RUMOR...
Frances St. John Smith, 18, pretty Smith College freshman, disappeared from Northampton, Mass., on Jan. 13. Her father, St. John Smith, Manhattan broker, immediately offered a reward to whosoever would find her. Eastern newspapers featured the story with front-page screamers for ten days, then dropped it. Last week the following advertisement containing a photograph and description of missing Miss Smith appeared in the Springfield, Mass., Republican and other New England newspapers: $10,000 REWARD If found alive $1,000 REWARD If found dead