Showing posts with label selling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selling. Show all posts
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Trials of A Bookseller

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1895 The Frequent Mistakes Made In Giving the Title of a Book. "To be a successful bookseller," said a dealer in books, "one ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Women Venders In Paris

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1895 The streets of Paris, particularly old Paris, are vocal with the mournful cries of women venders. They sing out the merits of newspaper...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Gypsy Sells Docile Husband To Woman For $5,000 In Gold

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1920 Wife Says She's Selling Mate at a Bargain as She Had Paid Same Sum for Him Herself — Declares It Is Tribal Custom and Perfectly Pro...
Thursday, July 5, 2007

Saves U.S. Millions From Junk

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1915 When William Jacobus sinks his hands into his pockets and surveys the great amount of Government "junk" he has sold for Uncle...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Keeping His Word

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1904 Sandy is the resident janitor of one of the smaller colleges. He is a bit of a character in his way, and makes an effort not to be outd...

Good-By to the Train Boy

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1901 Good-by to the train boy. On January 1, 1901, on two important American railroad systems, the experiment, heretofore tried tentatively,...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Money Spending a Habit

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1908 Spending money is a good deal of a habit, and though nobody need expect to break it off entirely, it can be restricted with much less s...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Girls Travel On "Nerve"

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Oct. 1910 Two Oklahoma Young Women Start Out Without Money on a Three-Years' Trip Chicago. — "We are going around the world on our ...

Famous Old London Bridge

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1910 Men Whose Names Will Live in History Dwelt and Worked on the Structure For centuries Old London bridge, with its double row of houses, ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Daddy's Bedtime Story — "Where the Bad Boy Found His Manners"

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1911 The Bad Boy in the Ditch "He was really a naughty, ill mannered boy," began daddy. "His parents were wealthy, and they l...
Friday, June 1, 2007

"Fainting Bertha" is On Her Way

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1914 Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 19. — "Fainting Bertha" seems to have difficulty in keeping from the paths of the police. In spite of ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Two Women Stopped Selling Books, Feared Pro-German

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Ohio, 1918 GIRL STUDENTS WERE CANVASSING FOR A PRO-GERMAN BOOK Sheriff Charles Swank was called to Hanover last Friday to make an investigat...
Monday, May 14, 2007

The Bird of Paradise

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1878 The Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris, has just received some living specimens of the bird of paradise, which it has hitherto been foun...
Sunday, May 6, 2007

Sign Painter's Work – Advertisements on Fences, Billboards

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1887 The Sign Painter's Work Interesting Information About the Advertisements We See on Fences "That man is a sign painter by trade...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Box Car Tourist (Tramp, Hobo) Selling Stolen Plunder

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Reno, 1905 TRAMP SELLS STOLEN PLUNDER IN RENO A gentleman of the road, or rather a box car tourist, giving his name as Frank Kilzer, arrived...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Flagrant Pension Fraud: She Married A Corpse

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1895 One of the Most Flagrant Pension Frauds Ever Perpetrated Fraudulent pension claimants receive a considerable share of the money obtaine...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Brittany's Hair Harvest – Country Girls Selling Their Hair

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1916 It is at Easter time that the curious "hair harvest" of Brittany is "reaped" by the traveling merchants, who go fro...