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Evansville Boots Tale Shows Progressive Spirit
In Evansville a saddler seeks boots from a German shoemaker whose wife dies and who then tends babies after bereavement. He delays work until the shoemaker’s wedding eve, when he plans to finish the boots first as a humorous sign of progress in the midwestern town.
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London
Paris
Tribune
Evansville
Tye
Hvansville Journal
United States
New York
England
France
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Europe
Valentine, Mott
Prs
T. van Buren
Carnochan
Chas P. Branch
Gratis
Gardiner
Aubridge
A. Stebbins
Taylor
W. F. Christie
A. M. Mauriceau
William McMullen
Water Street
Exchange
Warren
Russia
PAU
Warren County
Stoga
Morocco
Larer Montus
Hunter
Cosden & Co
Post Office
Philadelphia
Ohio
Colden & Co