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Updated: June 28, 2025
Before you know it, the billboards of the Sosii will announce the completed work, and the dedication shall show Rome who is responsible for my offending."
He knew nothing of the present whereabouts of Miriam Finch and Norma Whitmore. Of Christina Channing he heard much, for she was singing in Grand Opera, her pictures displayed in the paper and upon the billboards. There were many new friends, principally young newspaper artists like Adolph Morgenbau, who took to Eugene and were in a sense his disciples.
So was the individual who took the part of Captain Rember Baker, Captain Warner and Captain Warrington. Anne Story was a girl whose face the boys had seen on a dozen different billboards, and there were any number of other well-known individuals in the troupe. And there were real live Indians, too, who afforded the boys no end of interest.
And, as they drove through the fresh smelling fields, the boy would wonder if the long journey would ever come to an end and would ask himself, with sinking heart: "What if they had mistaken the day? What if something had happened that the circus could not materialize the promises of the billboards?
This species announced on blackboards and in the public prints that he would preach to "Men Only," or "Women Only," and his subjects were "Girls, Nice and Naughty," "Baldheads, Billboards and Bullheads," "Should Women Propose?" "Love, Courtship and Marriage," "Lums, Tums and Bums," "The Eight Johns," "The Late Mrs. Potiphar," or some other subject savoring of the salacious.
There was a great, glittering, gorgeous, procession, of such length that the farther end was lost beyond the distant horizon and tents that covered more acres of ground than the boy could see from the top of the orchard hill. Wonderful promises of the billboards! Wonderful! Wonderful promises of the billboards of Life! Wonderful!
For months the papers are filled with it, and on the day of the event the streets are thronged with people crowding about the billboards to receive the news. No national event, save the killing of a President, attracted more universal attention than the beating of Sullivan by Corbett and the beating of Corbett by Fitzsimmons, and "Fitz" in turn by Jeffries.
"But don't you like it better than Cream de mint or Benediction?" he persisted. Ruth laughed outright. "How do you know those names, you funny boy," she said. "Read 'em on the big signboards," he returned. "They have the biggest billboards in New York for one of these lickures. I forget which one."
"You remember?" "It's a little confused in my mind " he caught her look of amazement, "just AT PRESENT," he stammered, feeling her wrath again about to descend upon him. "Well, I'm the twenty-four sheet stand," she explained. "Sheet!" Mandy shrieked from her corner. "Yes the billboards the pictures," Polly said, growing impatient at their persistent stupidity.
That was the beginning the first winter, when I hadn't anything. "For the horse stable I went to town and found some old billboards. It was new lumber, but had been used for billboards. After the circus the owner offered to sell the boards cheap, and to trust me. He was a carpenter, and he jointed them.
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