Making a New American Citizen
An immigrant tale of Morris a Hungarian Jewish boy who arrives at Ellis Island at 14 and builds a rough life in Chicago San Francisco and New York. From candy and postcards to an usher job he climbs and falls into gambling and flashy living asking if he can ever settle for steady honest work. A meditation on four generations of work prosperity decay.
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Ellis Island
Morris
Chicago
Hungary
San Francisco
Seattle
Second Nv
Shrinkage After Severe Wetting Affects Private Banker Smith
A brief note describes shrinkage following heavy damp exposure and notes Private Banker Smith maintains extreme privacy. It also mentions a near miss involving Alaska coal fields narrowly escaping divine right.
Parodied woes over a plumber bill in Seattle street talk
A Seattle reader recalls a costly plumber’s visit to Joe Schrumpf’s home where a 15 year old boy did a six minute repair. Joe paid 25 cents to settle a 75 cent bill, quipping he objects to paying a boy seven fifty per hour.
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Joe Schrumpf
Joe
Byron
Lure of New York Stage For Ambitious Showgirls
Agnes Laura Pollock recounts July and August in New York when thousands of young women flock to Broadway seeking acting work. The piece notes show girls from Jersey to the South, varied backgrounds, all stage struck and anxious about finding jobs amid the metropolis.
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New York
Hronadway
Jersey
New England
South
Middle
Far West
Unclear excerpt hints at a tense city scene at managers' doors
The fragment depicts a weary figure awaiting decision at a manager's door and hints at serious consequences tied to potential failure, stirring curiosity about a larger, unstated business.
Broadway's Summer Burlesque of Plans and People
In midsummer New York theater buzz builds as Belasco Frohman and Shubert vie for winter hits. A 17 year old girl from St Louis documents her meet at Pennsylvania station and her path to a stage job, revealing the backstage costs and dreams behind Broadway.
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New York
Belasco
Frohman
Shubert
Moving Picture
Daube Hin
Algernon Barrington
Broadway
St. Louie
Pennsylvania Station
Jersey City
Stara
Press agent and two girls in New York hotel sting
The account recounts a press agent guiding two attractive women, a group parts ways, and the men later face a $17.75 taxi bill after the women ride all over town. The piece notes the men hope for contact that evening, while the women insist it was a joke and suggest paying to avoid trouble.
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Mitropolis
New York
Paldge
Western buyers in New York meet a theatrical press agent
Two young west coast men, a shoe house traveler and a clothing buyer, arrive in New York and mingle with the Broadway crowd after a lunch in a chop house. They repeatedly encounter a western theatrical press agent as they wander the Great White Way, noting the city’s bustling fashion and show world.
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New York
Broadway
P. A
Great Whiteway
West
Quips and Snatches of Everyday Speech Across Papers
A collage of clipped exchanges and snippets from multiple papers shows humorous misquotes and social banter. The items reflect casual dialogue on dancing, engagements, grievances, and petty disputes with light, homey tone and familiar names in a patchwork of 19th or early 20th century newspaper chatter.
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Baillargeon
Globe
Globe Real
Dr. Denton
Gomon
Secon Ave
Semno St
Tollettbcle Department
N’york
Chi
Francia Phinney Earle
North Pole
Walter Wellman
Messrs. Wight
Roosevelt and
Harriman
Dr. Cook
Smith
Alaska
Howard Doncourt
Agnes Laura Pollock
Miss Pollock
Everett
Mr. True
Allege
Little Old New York
Washington Star
Julia
Marie
Bertha
Ulla
Cornel
Florida
Timea- Union
Katharine
Mr. Kidder
Boston
Manchester Union
Farmer Wheatly
Jane
Mrs. Wheatly
Wheatly
Detroit Free Press
Endive
Kansas City
Willie Jones
Spokane Chronicle
Spoane Chronicle
Teasle
Esale
Hma
Tommy
Sammy Spooner
H. Evan Williams
Sherman, Clay & Co
Bartlett
Lieht Eeseseeeeee
Newman-Dykes
Mary of
Sheba
Gounod Schubert
Miss Mary Paciameet Era Neidiinger
Richmond Hill
McNally
Rudolph
Janeney
the Maude
Martha
Biatcu
Meistersinger
Prine
Lone Warn
Sullivan
A.Y.P
Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc
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