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The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud

July 12, 2010

By Dorothy von Heisman.
(Published 1903)
The story of one of the most remarkable frauds ever perpetrated upon a life insurance company. How two men and a woman obtained fifty thousand dollars by means of a clever plot and got safely away with the money. The fraud was only discovered by the merest accident.
ONE of the cleverest [...]

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Stray Lines from An Anglers Pocketbook – Hugh Thomson

June 30, 2010

STRAY LINES FROM AN ANGLER’S POCKET-BOOK. (Written about 1875)
” Non fit nisi improvisum ;”
or as the French render it,
” Rien n’arrive fors l’imprevu.”
He who first formulated this aphorism was surely a disciple of the rod. The longer our devotion to the “gentle art” the stronger our faith in the infallible uncertainty of sport. Yet who [...]

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A Talk with Jerome K Jerome (1901)

June 27, 2010

From a weekly magazine in 1901, by Raymond Blathwayt.

A TALK WITH MR JEROME K JEROME (1901)
A VERY quiet, retiring man of some thirty-odd years, Mr. Jerome is, nevertheless, possessed of a quietly humorous way of putting before his listener the most ordinary incidents of human life. He is, therefore, a very delightful companion, and a [...]

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