Showing posts with label begging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label begging. 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...
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...
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...
Friday, April 6, 2007

Seven Vags Arrested, Will Break Stone at Jail 15 Days

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Sheboygan and Janesville, Wisconsin, 1915-- SEVEN VAGS ARRESTED IN SOUTH YARDS WILL BREAK STONE AT THE JAIL WORKHOUSE FOR FIFTEEN DAYS A who...

Some Day You'll Be Busted, Herding with the Vags

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Racine and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1915-- "Walt Mason Says" By Walt Mason IN YEARS TO COME Money comes in easy, when a man is young,...

Police: No More Coffee and Bread for Vagrants

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Janesville and Grand Island, Wisconsin, 1915-- STOP FEEDING VAGRANTS AT CITY POLICE STATION Chief Champion this morning discontinued the pra...

The Worthless Wrecks of Hobodom

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Janesville and Racine, Wisconsin, 1915-- An item from Court News Charles Alberts, a veteran dwarfed member of the clan of hobodom, who makes...

Vast Army of Weary Willies Find Their Way To Racine

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Racine, Wisconsin, 1915-- Members of the police department agree that just now a larger number of vagrants and tramps infest the city than w...

The Trouble With Vagrants

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Racine and LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1915-- From Police Blotter Joe Davis and Joe King, strangers, regular vags, appeared at the corner of Sixth ...