This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Curiously Clever Beggars Operate in New York Streets
A report profiles several beggars in New York who improvise schemes to win alms. A clean-cut young man asks for 60 cents to lend while he collects a salary, another sells stock in himself as a rising mechanic, and an Englishman Shrewdly foists names from the phone book to conjure a noble lineage. An elderly press agent and a sobbing old woman are among others, each playacting to elicit sympathy and coins from passersby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alma
Department Public Welfare
Germany
West Side
Pennsylvania Station
Florida
Tiny Tim
Greenwich
Geenwich Village
Anhandlers
Elton Marlowe
Elisworth Marlowe
Dorking
Mr. Marlowe
Sir Ellsworth
America
Lord Whoosis