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August 28, 2010 KR Blog KR

Money Getting, Part XVI

A Verse Digest of P. T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting (1880)
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READ THE NEWSPAPERS

always take a trustworthy newspaper
and keep thoroughly posted in regard
to the transactions of the world

he who is without a newspaper
is cut off from his species

in these days of important inventions
he who don’t consult the newspapers
will find his business out in the cold

Money Getting Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part XIV, Part XV

Money Getting is a verse digest of P.T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting(1880)