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The Solemn Book Agent in a City Tailor Shop
A tall solemn book agent enters a Randolph street tailor shop to hawk a rare philosophy volume. He extols its depth, cites Theocritus Socrates Plato and Emerson, and quotes Gerrit Smith while the tailor spars with quips about glaze and war. The price is twelve dollars and a police threat ends the encounter.
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Randolph Street
Wendell Phillips
Theocritus
Socrates
Plato
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man of the
Gerrit Smith
Nat
Mr. Schmidt
Pook
Detroit Free Press