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Berne was a music teacher, a saloon-keeper's son with "a beautiful baritone voice," and when they were married he had just $500 to his name.
The Cincinnati Grocer's Kid Stephen Birmingham 2010
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The saloon-keeper's wife appeared on the scene and bought a
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
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I had helped put diamonds on the saloon-keeper and rags on myself, but if there are any diamonds now I'll put them on my own little wife and not the saloon-keeper's.
Dave Ranney Dave Ranney
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Such an apparent disparity between mind and body had not been brought to the saloon-keeper's experience before.
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The saloon-keeper's face expanded with hope, as he leaned aside and whispered to a friendly wardman.
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His good wages went to the saloon-keeper's till while his family starved and went in rags.
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
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Shut in that little office behind the iron bars, bending over the great books sometimes far into the night, looking out each pay-day through a little arched window on grimy faces and rough-bearded men who held out toil-worn hands to receive the week's earnings which long before another week would find their way into some saloon-keeper's till or gambler's pocket.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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Part of the saloon-keeper's business was to offer a home and refreshments to beggars in exchange for the proceeds of their foragings; and was there any one else in the whole city who would do this -- would the victim have done it himself?
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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Mrs. Bryan, the saloon-keeper's wife, had one, and I had another.
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Mrs. Bryan, the saloon-keeper's wife, had one, and I had another.
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