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...Though this job-roster is certainly impressive, yet by contrast with Massachusetts, New York or Ohio it is scarcely more than the black frock of the priest to the scarlet of Cardinals...
...living in Chicago then. He had come from Louisville, Ky., with no money and very little idea of what he would be able to do. He got a job tracing in pen-and-ink on silver-prints of photographs. Then he thought up jokes, illustrated them, sold them to a news syndicate for one dollar a piece. He got some orders for sport cartoons in Chicago papers and worked his way onto the staff of the Chicago American, and later of the Tribune. He illustrated the Sunday "feature" pages, made borders, designed "layouts." In his spare time he studied...
...meanest job on the farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes, but I liked to husk corn. There were many other jobs supposed to be a boy's size, such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy ( this was before the day of the automobile), sticking pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in the garden...
...that I despised; it seemed as if her cream never would turn into butter, and it also seemed as if it was always time to churn when the weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round job...
...stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed; 'The only corners I know of in Baldwin are the four corners on every Baldwin stock certificate.' I was wrong, for Arthur W. Cutten, quiet calculator in Chicago, had built...