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Literary
May 11, 1882
The Colored Patriot
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
What is this article about?
Mr. Johns arrives at a Bismarck hotel with a cheap trunk and receives poor treatment from staff. After a six-week absence, he returns and reveals $12,000 in gold from the trunk, mortifying the landlord, clerk, and porter. Moral: Do not disdain something cheap-looking, as it may hold value. From Chicago Times.
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Mr. Johns came to a hotel in Bismarck
with a cheap-looking trunk, worth about $7.
The clerk sized him up and gave him a back
room, just under the roof, with a dormer win-
dow, a camp bed and a tin basin for furniture.
The porter snubbed him, and he was the last
man waited on at the table, and was always
seated where he couldn't reach the bread and
the castor. He went away on business, was
gone six weeks, and left his room door open.
And then when he came back and opened that
old trunk, and took $12,000 in gold out of it,
the landlord pulled out all of his hair for mor-
tification, and went and got roaring drunk for
five days; the clerk forgot to paste down his
front hair, and went one whole day without
changing his eight-inch cuffs, and the porter
went out in the woods and lay down and died.
Moral: Never disdain to go through a trunk
because it looks cheap. You can't tell what
it may assay.--Chicago Times.
with a cheap-looking trunk, worth about $7.
The clerk sized him up and gave him a back
room, just under the roof, with a dormer win-
dow, a camp bed and a tin basin for furniture.
The porter snubbed him, and he was the last
man waited on at the table, and was always
seated where he couldn't reach the bread and
the castor. He went away on business, was
gone six weeks, and left his room door open.
And then when he came back and opened that
old trunk, and took $12,000 in gold out of it,
the landlord pulled out all of his hair for mor-
tification, and went and got roaring drunk for
five days; the clerk forgot to paste down his
front hair, and went one whole day without
changing his eight-inch cuffs, and the porter
went out in the woods and lay down and died.
Moral: Never disdain to go through a trunk
because it looks cheap. You can't tell what
it may assay.--Chicago Times.
What sub-type of article is it?
Fable
Prose Fiction
Satire
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Moral Fable
Social Satire
Appearance
Wealth
Disdain
What entities or persons were involved?
Chicago Times
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Chicago Times
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Moral: Never Disdain To Go Through A Trunk Because It Looks Cheap. You Can't Tell What It May Assay.