Library of Congress · resource:sn78000873/1911-09-21/ed-1:page:6
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 21, 1911
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The Story of a Man Who Made Good BY HARRY LEE SNYDER From the National Magazine About ten oclock in the morning of the first day of April the high cost of living landed h solar plexus blow I had just paid my good German landlady for my preceding weeks board and lodging and she had remarked apologetically Pota toes costs so much an meat is so high once that it is 1 must ask you for ten dollars every week already And I had been paying only seven I went to my office and sat down at my desk to think things overa not alto ether pleasant or wholly profitable task was a lawyer My honest old black smith fatherhaving in mind nothing but the thought of securing my futurehad made numberless sacrifices that I might be educated and his dearest wish had been to see me cozily established in my chosen profession Within a week after my admission to the bar he died and I found myself alone in the world for my mother had passed away some years be fore As I sat at my desk that morning 1 fell to thinking of my fathers last words
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maine state library. 1911-09-21. Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 21, 1911. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78000873/1911-09-21/ed-1/?sp=6
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