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One Thousand Ways to Make a Living

by Harold M. Dunphy

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Plan No. 449. Botanist for U. S. See Plan No. 217

Plan No. 450. Making Gas Mantles Pay

In an eastern town, where gas is still used for lighting stores, a little lame old man is said to make from $60 to $75 a week by taking contracts to keep gaslights in stores and offices supplied with mantles, which he makes himself, and by cleaning and polishing the fixtures. His charge is 50 cents a month per light, and he has many hundreds of these to look after, sometimes having as high as forty or fifty in a single store.

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