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Francisco Bay, from raided oyster-beds and fights at night on shoal and flat, to markets in the morning against city wharves, where peddlers and saloon-keepers came down to buy.
Chapter 7 2010
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Also, result of precocity of son and democracy of father, Young Dick was sent to grammar school for the last year in order to learn shoulder-rubbing democracy with the sons and daughters of workmen, tradesmen, saloon-keepers and politicians.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Little cared East St. Louis for all this bandying of human problems, so long as its grocers and saloon-keepers flourished and its industries steamed and screamed and smoked and its bankers grew rich.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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"The ultimate goal is to provide the ultimate private banqueting space in the city, run by what we hope will be the best the city has to offer in terms of restaurant - and saloon-keepers," said Mr. Cross.
Touchdown, Nieporent! Chez Jets In Deals With Four-Star Chefs 2004
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Ashland Avenue, was visited at sundry times by financiers, business men, office-holders, priests, saloon-keepers — in short, the whole range and gamut of active, subtle, political life.
The Titan 2004
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Here, while the ladies went in bands from place to place, meeting often with insult and abuse now that the saloon-keepers had recovered from their first surprise, the gentlemen remained in the church to pray.
Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada Addie Chisholm
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The saloon-keepers felt it and grumbled, but the assistant superintendent was too great a favorite for them to dare say much.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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Recently a man put out of business by prohibition said to me: "This town went dry seven years ago, and going out of the saloon business has been such a benefit to me and to my family, I shall work and vote to put all other saloon-keepers in this state out of business for their own good."
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain
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The saloon-keepers all combined and kicked against me because I had reduced the price of beer.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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In nearly every case, the permission was given during that first day, and a few saloon-keepers yielded to the entreaties of these earnest
Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada Addie Chisholm
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