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Singerman ID#supp2322

Shams; or, Uncle Ben’s Experience with Hypocrites. A Story of Simple Country Life giving a Humorous and Entertaining Picture of Every Day Life and Incidents in the Rural Districts, with Uncle Ben’s Trip to the City of Chicago and to California, and His Experience with the Shams and Sharpers of the Metropolitan World.

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Singerman ID#supp2322

Draper, John Smith. Shams; or, Uncle Ben’s Experience with Hypocrites. A Story of Simple Country Life giving a Humorous and Entertaining Picture of Every Day Life and Incidents in the Rural Districts, with Uncle Ben’s Trip to the City of Chicago and to California, and His Experience with the Shams and Sharpers of the Metropolitan World. Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, c1887. xv, 412 p.

Notes

See pp. 212-13 for the visit to Chicago of Abraham, Solomon & Isaac’s Combination troupe from Jerusalem; see pp. 327-32 for Moses Oppenheimer, a partner in Dodgem, Skipem & Oppenheimer, of San Francisco. Each of the humorous sketches has illustrations of the subjects. Wright III:1646 is for another ed.