Samuel Milton Jones

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Samuel M. Jones, “A Plea for Simpler Living” (1903)

October 27, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
The Arena 29 no. 4 (April 1903): 345. A PLEA FOR SIMPLER LIVING. Samuel Milton “Golden Rule” Jones The following words from a flaming advertisement recently I caught my eye: “Why don’t you marry the girl? We’ll help you.” They were from the advertisement of an instalment house—that is, a business house that sells furniture on the instalment plan, generally asking a very large price in the first place, only to take it back in many instances after those who have purchased have partly paid for it, and after months and perhaps years of agony in trying to extricate themselves […]
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Ernest Crosby, “Golden Rule Jones: Mayor of Toledo” (1906)

October 27, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Golden Rule Jones: Mayor of Toledo By ERNEST CROSBY (1906) Publishers’ Note This sketch of Golden Rule Jones appeared originally in The Craftsman of Syracuse, New York, and is now reprinted, after revision, with the consent of the Editor of that magazine. I IN BUSINESS It was in Chicago in the winter of 1895-1896 that I made the acquaintance of Samuel Milton Jones. We had both been invited to some kind of a conference and were entertained at one of the “settlements” of the city. His fame had not reached me at that time, for he had not yet entered […]