Showing posts with label beggars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beggars. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2008

Man Begs for Food with $83 In Pocket

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1920 Claims He's a House Cleaner — "He Sure Is," Says Cop. KANSAS CITY, Missouri. — Four pocketbooks and $83 were found on Ste...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Not to Be Reached

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1895 The people of the extreme south of France, in the neighborhood of the Pyrenees, have a hard shift to live. Some of them gain a liveliho...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Easy to Talk Too Much

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1919 One Must Admit There Is Much Truth in These Sage Reflections "It is my opinion," said Mr. Goslington, "that beggars talk...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Modesty of Slit Skirts Debated; New Fashions Give Sight to Blind

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1913 Daughters' Dress Care of Mothers Denver Pedagogue Says Parents Can Check X-ray Gowns and Slit Skirts on Girls DENVER, Aug. 30. — Su...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Wicked Humor — A Great Satire On The Ways of Tramps

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1878 A Sarcastic Mendicant "I'm very hungry," said a haggard tramp, with very red eyes, as he stood obsequiously at the side e...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Dwarf Darnell Flim-Flams Little Blind Girl

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Atlanta, 1902 MONROE DARNELL, MIDGET, FLIM-FLAMS BLIND GIRL The climax of eccentricities in flim-flamming was reached yesterday, when a litt...
Monday, April 23, 2007

He Thought He Was Shot, While Training Dogs

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Wisconsin, 1907 HE THOUGHT HE WAS SHOT Jos. Milcharek Goes Out to Train His Dogs to Hunt and Narrowly Escapes a Serious Wound. While trainin...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Fake Exposed By Telephone

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1903 Young Woman, Pretending to Be a Mute, Foiled in Her Game A Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) telegram to the Philadelphia Inquirer says that a young...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Have Confidence in Yourself and You Will Succeed

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1920 TWO ONE-LEGGED MEN By Napoleon Hill In the town of Wichita Falls, Texas, I saw a one-legged man sitting on the side-walk begging for al...