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HEARN'S CARTOONS
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which he ever preferred to the conventional uptown Americanized districts; the humble life of landladies and booksellers, of washerwomen and darkies selling clothes-poles; of queer old men haunted by "ghosteses," of flower-sellers and cemeteries, quacks and hoodlums.

Ethel Hutson

New Orleans
October 27, 1923