Returns From England
RETURNS FROM ENGLAND
Where he sold a patent for $20,000 - now dresses like a nabob.
William J White 0 "How how could you do it Willie" - the erstwhile proprietor of the Occidental Cafe is on top of the heap again.
He has been chased over two continents by women who have had money and who were in love with him and he is still alive to tell the story.
He has just got back from England and is dressed in the ultra English fashion. He could make the Prince of Wales look like a Rube.
He took with him to England a patent device for cleaning beer pumps. The patent cost him practically nothing here. He sold it in England for $20,000. Of this amount he got $6,500 down and a negotiable note for the balance.
He was in Ann Arbor last night the guest of Frank McCaffrey, and gave the college dudes of that place some valuable pointers on the latest styles of toggery.
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