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Paying $2 for a license, Mr. Obadie took his fiancée up to the third floor. There they found an official seated at a desk under a dingy cupid. Whipping through the marriage service at top speed he pronounced them man & wife in less than a minute...
...last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist who took a stranger to her bed, thinking he was a famed cinemactor...
...LeRallec), famed cake baker to all U. S. Presidents since the first Roosevelt. A crustularian purist. Mme Blanche disdains such devices as building her mammoth cakes around steel or wooden scaffolding. She has built self-supporting cakes weighing over 600 Ib. which were entirely edible from base to candy Cupid, with the exception of a few concealed electric light wires. She works from blue prints, bakes her cakes in sections, in an old-fashioned coal stove, likes to have two months to execute a large order. A Mme Blanche fruit cake is supposed to last 25 years. Stiil...
...have a sample copy of a magazine dated Aug. 3, 1889, which was published by the rime Publishing Company, 237 Broadway, New York. The outside front cover has a cupid with wings, peaked hat, sandals and bludgeon. The youngster holds a large scythe which is attached or else about to cut a string which leads to the earth's globe. The slogan appearing below this illustration reads, "Folly shall not go dully by U. S.-Shakespeare...
...illustrated weekly called Tid-Bits was published in New York City in 1884, changed its name to Time in 1885, was merged with Munsey's Feb. 22, 1890. TIME, founded 1923, has no connection with defunct, cupid-covered Time...