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Unreserved seats to the lecture will be 25 cents. Reserved seats will be 25 cents plus an equal amount for a trial subscription to the newspaper "Socialist Call." Both kinds are now on sale at the Holyoke Bookshop, 6 1/2 Holyoke Street...
...trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick is effective. On the whole, however, though readers could not have asked for a louder burlesque...
Born in England in 1813, Robert Spring arrived in Philadelphia about 1858 to open a bookshop. Not until he had a chance to sell a small but genuine collection of early U. S. autographs did he prosper. Discovering his own ability at copying hand-writings, he started in a small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because...
...exhibition of oils, the most outstanding of which are "Spring Flowers" and "Victorian Parlour," is being held this week in the Dunster House Bookshop by Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock...
...knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed at last from the long drudgery of school, she got a job in a bookshop, just in time for the inflation...