Months ago a Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran of Holyoke, Mass. and one William Wilbur J. Cooke of Philadelphia arrived in Boston, put up at the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. Cooke is chiefly famed for having once married the widow of John S. Huyler (chocolates). Mrs. Huyler-Cooke later advertised in the public prints that she was no longer responsible for the debts of William Wilbur J. Cooke.
In Boston Mrs. Doran and Mr. Cooke met Edward F. Cloran, ingenuous art dealer of No. 137 Stuart Street. They told him of a complete service of 232 pieces of Lowestoft china painted with the crest of New...
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