Details of pay-per-view #2

Another PPV story (details only):

• The article is from the Chicago Tribune and was written by Larry Wolters (1946.)
• Walter M. Veefy (he's worth looking up as you will surely know who he is) is credited (probably by Uncle Fletcher) with inventing the soft treadle on the piano and also for discovering the soft-bellied house snake.
• Uncle Fletcher once devised a way to siphon (free) peanuts out of a peanut machine.  He siphoned so many one year that the Illinois Central Packing Company failed to declare a dividend.  [This makes the fact that he co-owned a peanut machine all the more curious, doesn't it?]
• In this article, Paul Rhymer claims he has borrowed from Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, Charles Dickens and Robert Benchley!