Word: pocket-book
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...bold attempt was made yesterday by a woman in New York to rob a Cincinnati gentleman of $7,700. His promptly noticing the absence of his pocket-book in its usual place led to her immediate arrest...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...
...Natural History 1 young man says that his pocket-book is a meteorological phenomenon - it is continually light'ning...
...brazen-faced Sunflower fixed his bold bad eye upon the magnificent representative of the college man, and as he gently nudged him in the side near his pocket-book, remarked, in an undertone, "We both have much dew on our clothes...
PICKPOCKETS have found their way again into the boat-house. On last Tuesday afternoon a pocket-book with a sum of money was taken from a gentleman's clothes in the Club boat-house while he was on the river...