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A Pair of Shoes in February City Life
Jennie Osgood, 22, and Maggie, 18, share a cold tenement in a Wisconsin city. Jennie works hard at a cloak shop to feed and shelter Maggie who longs for warmth, decent clothes, and comfort. The story traces their poverty driven fantasies of wealth and home, ending with a hopeful moment over oranges bought with four dollars.
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Jennne Osgood
March
Ihs
Jennie
Maggie
White
Ain
Jennie Dlear
Father
Gir
Jennie Osgood
Magsie
Pamavetpuia
Mite
Lucia Zarate
Magri
Lavinia Warren
Tom Thumb
de Esta
Ninth and Arch Street
Gen
Third Street
Senorita Zarate
Philadelphia
Gov. Rusk
Joseph Morley
Racine
John Jones
Union Grove
Racine County
J. W. Branning
Chicago
Tris
Chicago, Wisconsin & Northern Railway
Waukesha
The
State University
Ethel Bushnell
Omro
Mina Stone
Reedsburg
J. W. Vernon
Madison
Alice L. Williams
Earll
Emma Goddard
Monroe
Allen
Eau Claire
H. C. Hullinger
A. H. Long
Gotham
G. W. Baldwin
Baldwin's Mills
Gazette Des Hapitaux
Rendu
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Rome
Xendo