hoarding-houses

Updated: January 10, 2026

A blackguard from Oil City has opened a dive just outside the property, on the road to the station, and Cameron tells me all sorts of dope is for sale in the hoarding-houses. We have cocaine-inhalers, opium-smokers, and all the other vices."

- The Best Short Stories of 1917: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story