Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 55 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Frank DeWarf. Beau Brummel of Davenport Job Printers. 56 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Thats about the time, sport, that the plughat epidemicwas ragin in this burg. High-rollin dandies didnt thinkthey was properly dolled unless crowned with the lids madefamous by Rain-in-the-Face and other noble redmen who gotsaturated with firewater. The plughat was the high-sign ofgentility and the comeon of the fourflush. Hiram Price set the fashion in lids with his sky-scrapinbeaver stovepipe. Michael Donahue and Sena
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 55 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Frank DeWarf. Beau Brummel of Davenport Job Printers. 56 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Thats about the time, sport, that the plughat epidemicwas ragin in this burg. High-rollin dandies didnt thinkthey was properly dolled unless crowned with the lids madefamous by Rain-in-the-Face and other noble redmen who gotsaturated with firewater. The plughat was the high-sign ofgentility and the comeon of the fourflush. Hiram Price set the fashion in lids with his sky-scrapinbeaver stovepipe. Michael Donahue and Senator Lowreywere natural-born plughatters, gettin away clean with em,but Mose Zimmerman, Charlie Lindholm. Neighbor Carpen-ter, Joe Bettendorf, and Henry Volkman balked on sportinthe three-deck dicer, Harry Sommers, manager of the Kim-ball house, didnt feel dressed up unless a plughat topped hisknob. Neither did Denny Hart, the head-waiter, Ed Purse,the bartender, nor Judge Shaughnessy, the barber. Otherdandy dressers, sported the stovepipe and the soup-and-fishscenery, with and without th
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