Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 38
aining the report would not have to be carried fromthe telegraph office to the editorial rooms. My joy at this discovery was great, and I told the operator toprepare for several hours of steady work. With an eye to bus-iness, he asked me what compensation I proposed to give himfor his work. I… … 34 OUR BOYS. saying that he was going back to the city. I would have paidhim five times the price he demanded rather than to get no re-port to my paper; but he knew he had an advantage of me,and I did not intend to pay him the price he asked, if I couldavoid it. I followed him out on the platform,…
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