
The Bread Line: A Story of a Paper
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About This Book
A book which should be enjoyed by everyone who has had anything to do with the starting or the maintaining of a newspaper or a magazine, and which may be recommended very strongly to every one who has in mind the idea of starting a publication of any kind. It is the story of the attempt of four Bohemians, two writers and two artists, to establish a weekly paper, which in the book is known as The Whole Family. The four have knocked about a good deal in the literary life of New York, their daily work has brought them into contact with publishers and editors, and they have evolved a scheme for a ...
Chapters (287)
- The Bread Line
- The Bread Line
- A Story of a Paper
- Albert Bigelow Paine
- New York The Century Co. 1900
- CONTENTS
- The Bread Line
- I
- THE FIRST DINNER
- II
- FRISBY'S SCHEME
- III
- A LETTER FROM THE "DEAREST GIRL IN THE WORLD," OTHERWISE MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND, TO MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
- IV
- SOME PREMIUMS
- OFFICE OF THE WHOLE FAMILY A WEEKLY PAPER FOR YOUNG AND OLD
- V
- A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND
- VI
- CASH FOR NAMES
- "CASH PAID FOR NAMES! "TWENTY-FIVE CENTS FOR EACH!
- "TWENTY-FIVE CENTS IN CASH FOR EACH NAME
- "FIVE DOLLARS IN CASH FOR FIVE MINUTES' WORK,
- "CASH PAID FOR NAMES! "POTS OF GOLD! POTS OF GOLD! NO WORK!
- "TWENTY-FIVE CENTS IN CASH FOR EACH AND EVERY NAME
- VII
- A LETTER FROM MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND TO MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
- VIII
- THE COURSE OF EVENTS
- IX
- IN THE SANCTUM
- X
- A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND
- XI
- THE GENTLE ART OF ADVERTISING
- OFFICE OF THE "WHOLE FAMILY" A WEEKLY PAPER FOR YOUNG AND OLD
- "OUR MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM OFFERS
- "OFFER NO. 1
- "ONE DOLLAR!
- "OFFER NO. 2
- XII
- A LETTER FROM MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND TO MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
- XIII
- THE HOUR OF DARK FOREBODING
- "OFFICE OF JACKSON & MARSH, ETC.
- XIV
- A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND
- XV
- FINAL STRAWS
- XVI
- AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
- XVII
- A TELEGRAM FROM MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND TO MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
- XVIII
- GRABBING AT STRAWS
- XIX
- A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND
- XX
- THE BARK OF THE WOLF
- XXI
- THE LETTER LIVINGSTONE READ
- XXII
- THE BREAD LINE
- XXIII
- THE LAST LETTER—TO MR. AND MRS. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE, OLD POINT COMFORT, VIRGINIA
- "'THE ROAD TO FORTUNE.'"
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