Letters from a self-made merchant to his son : being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork-packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham", to his son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy".

  • Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Letters from a self-made merchant to his son : being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork-packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham", to his son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t I III— Facing Fags *® Clarence looked to me like another of his father’s bad breaks.” 97 “You looked so blamed important and chesty when you started off.” 127 “A good many salesmen have an idea that buyers are only interested in funny stories.” . . .131 “Josh Jenkinson would eat a little food now and then just to be sociable, but what he really lived on was tobacco.” 147 “Herr Doctor Paracelsus Von Munsterberg Avas a pretty high-toned article.” 166 “ I started in to curl up that young felloAV to a crisp.” 181 “When John L. Sullivan went through the stock yards it just simply shut down the plant.” . . 183 “Jim Hicks dared Fatty Wilkins to eat a piece of dirt.” 250 “Miss Curzon, with one of his roses in her hair, watching him from a corner.” .... 294