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Which will contain the following extraordinary stories, all original, complete, and copyrighted, will be

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For Fame, Money, or Love?—By R. Ottolenghi. The startling story of a mysterious invention that threatened the entire destruction of spoken language, and which did destroy three men’s belief in womankind.