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...neighborly countryside as "Uncle Henry,"was part owner of a county newspaper, and the son learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel and hogs at 2 3/4c a pound...
...blind violinist played in the street in front of the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh. Blind musicians have doubtless played there before-they are not infrequent. A music lover, goaded to desperation, will from time to time resort to bribery to make them stop. Thus they eke out their precarious livelihood. In this case, strange things happened. Men, hurrying past, paused, listened, stayed. A crowd gathered. An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique. For two hours the crowd stood, respectfully attentive to the program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei, the prison scene from...
Said a minister: "It is the function of the schools to train young folks to earn a livelihood...
...player who depends upon his game for his livelihood is certainly not an amateur," said Major Moore. "It would be perfectly right for Tilden and Richards to write and even get paid for it if the articles were unsigned. As matters stand new it is not so much what is in their articles as who wrote them. That gives them prominence. A similar thing happened with Ouimet, former open golf champion, who started to run a gold shop, but was forced to close it in order to remain as amateur. The various associations which govern these sports however, have...
...York Times is no official charity organization. It is part of a great industry seeking news, spreading news, molding public opinion, and therewith gaining its livelihood. The "Hundred Neediest Cases" it has undertaken in its non-official character, but it has made the work one of the most notable achievements of that nature today...