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Grandfather And The Montague Collar
fiction ·

The writer's grandfather tells how the detached collar was invented in Troy. An irate ironmonger's wife, Mrs. Montague, who was tired of washing an…

HOME TOWN OF A PROPHET.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Palmyra, N.Y., birthplace of Joseph Smith, Jr. founder of Mormonism. The shrine of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah. On the summit of …

THE ART OF JOHNNIE HELL.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about religious signs and an interview with one of the mysterious men who paint signs. Johnnie Hell, whose real name is J. Barthelomew, …