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Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...
...summer day in 1899, a private banker named Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina were walking through the expensive wildwood of their big country estate, Yaddo, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Suddenly Katrina stopped, listened, raised her hands "as if in appeal to that Something which was too vast for me to define." Few moments later she said with dreamy excitement: "Here will be a perpetual series of house parties-of literary men, literary women, and other artists. . . . At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame. Look, Spencer! They are walking...
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Your article was evidently written by someone who never saw Wildwood. I suggest he come here this summer. The fact that we will not punch his face or kick him in the pants, as he most justly deserves, will be evidence of our lack of hardness...
...power to Wildwood, hard or soft; to her boardwalk, her auction shops', her dance halls, her shooting galleries and Bingo games. A seaside colony of 15,000, this summer Wildwood, according to her Chamber of Commerce, expects 175,000 residents, 15% more than last year...