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An Odd Sign

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Nearly everybody has heard of the "catch sigu" of the dyer, to the effect that he "dyes to live aud lives to dye. " There are probably half a dozen or more dyers in this city who have that sigu conspicuously displayed at their establishments. There has beeu a sudden revival in the use of catchy signs, particularly rhyined ones, ainong bootblacks and email sidewalk merchants'. These sigus are now springing up every wbere, aud a oouple o?r young newsboys with sorne facility for makiug doggorel are picking up mauy a half dollar for work of this kind amoug their fellows. The fever bas even reached Frankford, and an odd old charactor there has this placard oufcside bis huruble establishment: Moses Jones, Dealer In Bones ; Also In Bags And All Kinds of Rags. I Can Laugh at My Foes, For I'm Still Old Mose.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News