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IV-"Five Cents a Day; A Man's Life" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World
". . . I was getting to the end of my small stock of cash and was beginning to wonder where the next money was coming from when my troubles were added to by an accident. To many people it would have seemed most trivial, but in the condition of my finances, it was a serious one. . . . "
New York Evening World 1898-07-21
II-"Five Cents a Day for This Man's Living" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World
" . . . When I had finished I would try and make myself believe that I had just enjoyed a course dinner. But I was seldom quite successful, as it is not easy to deceive your stomach . . . "
New York Evening World 1898-07-19
VI - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-10
V - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-09
III - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-07
II - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
"I told the readers of the Evening World on Saturday how I had visited the Y.W.C.A. for help and guidance and how the one remedy reiterated to me at that really worthy institution was to return home at once. . . ."
New York Evening World 1905-02-06
I - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
" . . . There are hundreds of young women who come to New York from small country towns and villages with plans for making their living if not their fortunes. They find work as teachers, clerks, stenographers, usually upon slender salaries and all is well so long as wages come in regularly. The difficulty is that most bachelor girls earn so little that they are unable to save anything for the raindy day; and if the weekly stipend is stopped what does a girl do in such a predicament?"
New York Evening World 1905-02-04