Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — A Hollow Bluff. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Hollow Bluff.

An influential and trustworthy journal of Vienna, Polltische Correspondenz,” announces that French official circles have given up the Idea of organizing a continental boycott of American exports, declaring that the difficulties of organizing an effective European customs league against the United States are considered insuperable. The threat was never more than a pale, transparent bluff anyhow, and It never scared anybody in this country excepting a few people who were looking for something to get scared at.

Ben Jonaon wrote “Every Mas In HU Humor,” considered by competent critics to be his best play, at 22.