Tag: homeless
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What A Rich Man Learned In Living With Hoboes
A rich man living with hoboes? That sounds like the plot of a Mel Brooks movie (because it is the plot of a Mel Brooks movie). The article is actually considerably less funny. It’s by Edwin A. Brown, a wealthy man who spent “years studying the lives and conditions of the great floating body of…
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Pitiful Medicant Gives Way To The Cunning Beggar
This article is about the specialized vocabulary of beggars, and the scams beggars pull. Each decade since begging in the United States became a popular calling has been productive of its own form of deception. There have been ingenious variations, but not very many different schemes, as many think. Old “Philly Pop” himself invented the…
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Night In A Fascinating Square That Never Sleeps
Anyone who has found themselves in Times Square in the middle of the night will recognize that some things are still the same as they were 100 years ago. This article is a beautiful description of a full night’s worth of characters, sights, smells, and sounds. It could easily describe the same area today, if…
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