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...Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant...
...Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
...Cheshire Cheese was brought into existence some 250 years ago, not long after one Pasque Rossee, Greek servant to a retired Turkish coffee merchant, opened London's first Coffee House in 1652. It is recorded that Shakespeare frequented it often...
Convalescent in hospital, Judge Johnson, a public servant whose experience includes school teaching among Indians, declared Widow Simmons irresponsible, crazy, hallucinated. So did U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah, who was surprised to hear that Mrs. Simmons, whom he had never met, would rather have "gotten" him than Judge Johnson for assistance she fancied he had rendered the Utah Copper...
...that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message. Next day Chinese Boxers, uprising, slew...