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...test case Editor Willard E. Hawkins had his 19-year-old daughter, Stephana, concoct "the most impossible, inane and childish semblance of a story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack...
Monastery St. Stephanos is named for an early martyr and also for the family that gave it to the Greek Orthodox Church: the family of Constantine and Stefano Stephano, makers of Rameses, Stephana and Smiles cigarets. Emigrating from Epirus some 40 years ago, the Stephano brothers sold cigarets in the streets of New York, worked in tobacco shops, settled in Philadelphia to build their own business...
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