5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends
and Influence People."
EDWARD BOK
How A Fourteen-Yaer-Old Immigrant Boy
Met The Greatest Men
In America
One day a hungry little boy "They would." replied the little
coming home from school stopped Dutch boy, "if your window were
before a bakery window to admire celan."
the hot buns and custard pies. "Why, that's so, too," said the
The baker stepped out and said baker. "Maybe you'll clean it for
to him: me."
"Look pretty good, don't they?" And that was how Edward Bok
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West Main Street Elkin, N. C.
Thursday,, Nov. 11—
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"THE SMALL TOWN BOY"
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THE STRANGEST CASE
II CRIMINAL HISTORY!
From the*dead past he returns
to life! The man who
claims to lie the original jflSSv
fc oT Tn?r
AFTER 51 YEARS IN HIDING, AMERICA'S ORIGINAL
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 RETURNS TO TELL THE TRUE
STORY OF HIS EARLY LIFE OF BANDITRY!
Hear from his own lips the Fantastic Story of his
Astounding Escape from the Long Arm of the Law!
TO SEE JESSE JAMES IS TO BELIEVE HIM!
Hear Jesse James tell the hair-raising story of how
he and his cousin Bob Ford changed clothes with the
slain Charles Bigelow (a bandit) and how Jesse made
his escape only to return the next day to attend hi* own
funeral and aet as one of his own pall-bearers! Hear
Jesae James tell how he helped bury himself outside his
own mother's window! Hear him tell many other thrilling
tales of his own exploits as America's Original Public
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...
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
got his first job. It paid him only
fifty cents a week but it looked
like a fortune; fbr his people were
so poor that he used to go out in
the street with a basket every
day and collect stray bits of coal
that had fallen in the gutter
where the coal wagons had deliv
ered coal.
That boy, Edward Bok, had
come to this country so utterly
ignorant of English that he could
n't understand a word his teach
er said to him and he never got
more than six years' schooling in
his life; yet he became one of the
most successful magazine editors
in the history of American jour
nalism.
He admitted he was almost to
tally ignorant of what women like
to read; yet he built up the great
est women's magazine in the
world, and kept its circulation
pyramiding and sky-rocketing un
til, in the month he retired, two
million copies were sold, and one
million dollars' worth of adver
tising appeared within the covers
of a single issue.
Edward Bok was editor of the
Ladies' Home Journal for thirty
years; then he retired; and wrote
the story of his life, called The
Americanization of Edward Bok.
After washing windows for the
bakery shop, Edward Bok began
collecting jobs with the same gus
to which most boys reserve for
collecting stamps. On Saturday
mornings, he ran a paper route;
on Saturday afternoons and Sun
days, he peddled ice water and
lemonade to the thirsty passen
gers on the horse cars; and in
the evenings, he began to write
up birthday parties and pink teas
for the local newspaper. Finally
he was averaging between sixteen
and twenty dollars a week all
in his extra time after school. He
was only twelve years old and
he had been in America less than
six years.
He was only thirteen when he
left school to become an office
boy for the Western Union; but
he didn't for one moment give up
the idea of an education. Instead
he started to educate himself. He
saved his carfares and went with
out lunch until he had enough
money to buy an encyclopedia of
American biography and then
he did an unheard-of thing. He
read the lives of famous men and
wrote them asking for additional
information about their child
hoods. He wrote General James
A. Garfield, who was then run
ning for President, and asked if
it was true that he was once a
towboy on a canal. He wrote Gen
eral Grant about a certain battle
and Grant drew a map for him
and invited this fourteen-year
old boy to have dinner with him
and spent the whole evening talk
ing to him.
By this same process, this boy
who was working in a telegraph
office for six dollars and twenty
five cents a week, soon made the
acquaintance of the most distin
guished men of his day. He visited
Emerson, Phillip Brooks. Oliver
Wendell HOlmes, Longfellow, Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln, Louisa Alcott,
General Sherman and Jefferson.
Mingling with these distinguish
ed people gave him a confidence
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a vision and an ambition that!
were priceless.
One day he saw a man open
a package of cigarettes on the
street, take out a souvenir photo
graph and throw It away. Edward
Bok was always on the look-out
for new and famous people to
write —so he picked up the pho
tograph and looked at it. It was
a picture of a famous statesman,
but the other side of the photo
graph was a complete blank. Bok
thought: "If there had been a
short biography of this .famous
man on the other side, probably
this picture wouldn't have been
thrown away."
That gave him an idea. The
next day in his lunch hour he set
out to find the company that
published the photographs. He got
hold of the man in charge and
taked to him. He talked so eag
erly and so convincingly that be
fore he left, he had an order to
supply a hundred such biogra
phies at SIO.OO a piece—or ten
cents a word. Soon he was asked
to supply so many that he could
n't possibly do all the work him
self, so he had several reporters
working for him, supplying him
biographies at $5.00 a piece or
exactly one half the price he him
self was getting.
Finally he threw up his tele
graph job entirely and tackled the
publishing field in earnest.
He was just twenty-six when
he went to Philadelphia to take
charge of the Ladies' Home
Journal; and he was just fifty-six
—in the prime of life—when he
closed his desk for the last time
and said "I'm through." " -
In those thirty years he had
created for himself a unique place
in American journalism. Of course
he had made a fortune, but a
man's success isn't measured in
money alone. Let's see, for ex
ample, what Edward Bok did for
you personally.
Well to begin with, the food you
get is probably purer and more
wholesome because of his fight
| for pure food laws. The city you
I live in is doubtless cleaner and
j more sanitary because he waged
l a relentless campaign against
| dirty and unsightly city dumps.
The house you live in is probably
more beautifully built and more
tastefully furnished because of
his unremitting crusade against
the stuffiness and ugliness of the
late Victorian era. In those days,
house designs were as ugly as
they were ornate, and as expen
sive as they were horrible. Ed
wcrd Bok the first man to re
cruit the best architects in the
country to supply house plans so
cheaply that anyone could afford
them.
Copyright, 1937
BURCH
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneed of
Burch, accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Sneed of Winston-
Salem, were visitors to Charlotte
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chap
pell were week-end guests of the
latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
D. Shore, of Harmony.
Mrs. J. S. Greenwood is im
proving from an illness that has
kept her confined to her home
for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Coy' Medley of,
I Salisbury, were the guests Satur
day of Mrs. Medley's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Neal Axsom.
Mrs. Charlie Ashburn of
Friendship, spent several days
last week the guest of her mother.
Mrs. Tine Whitaker, who has been 1
ill for several days. Friends of |
Mrs. Whitaker will be glad to |
know that she is improving.
Rev. A. B. HayeS of Mountain
View, will fill his regular appoint
ment at Union Cross Baptist
church Saturday afternoon and
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Wade Hampton is recov
ering from a recent illness, we
are glad to note.
Miss Maude Anthony spent the
week-end in Elkin, the guest of
Miss Thelma Dodson.
Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Chandler
and family spent the week-end in
Hillsville, Va., the guests of rela
tives and friends.
J. A. White of Thomasville,
spent several days last week the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Burton.
Mrs. Santford White returned
Sunday from Elkin. where she
spent several days with Mr. and
Mrs. Sid Hudspeth, the latter her
daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Medley of
Harmony, were the guests of
friends here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Peate,
Miss Lucy and Charlie Peale, of
Hamptonville, were the guests re
cently of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Buelin.
Mrs. Effie Moser Whitaker
spent the week-end at Copeland,
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Moser, the former her brother.
J. C. Kerley of Elkin, spent
the week-end here the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Humphries.
A group from Elkin Valley
Baptist church will present a
program at Little Richmond Bap
tist church Sunday evening, No
vember 14. at 6:30. The public
is extended a cordial invitation
to attend.
NOTICE OF SALE OP LAND
Pursuant to an order of salte, I
made by the Clerk of the Super-,
lor Court of Surry County, North
Carolina, on the 18th day of
October. 1937, in the special pro
ceeding entitled "J. M. Crissman,
et als, vs. Etta Crissman, et als,"
the undersigned Commissioners
appointed in the said order, will
offer for sale to the highest bid
der for cash, on the 19th day of
November, 1937, at 1 o'clock P.
M., on the premises hereafter de
scribed at the old Dabney Criss
man Home Place, the following
tracts of land to-wit:
TRACT NO. 1. Beginning on a
stake and pointers in the public
road in the old line between W.
W. Cornelius and Dabney Criss
man, runs 30 deg. west 14 chains
to a chestnut stump at Briar
Branch, then down the branch as
it rrjeanders south 7a deg. east 12
chains and twenty links to a white
oak on east side of said branch,
then south 30 deg. west 17 chains
along a choped line to a red oak
on east side of public road, then
with the road as it now meanders
north 87 deg. west 5 chains,
north 45 deg. west 6 chains and
50-100 to the beginning, contain
ing 18 acres, more or less.
TRACT NO. 2. Beginning on
a willow on the bank of the
Yadkin River corner of Albert's
and Dabney Crissman land, runs
thence north some degrees east
with the dividing ditch across the
bottom running by a marked per
simmon and apple tree on bank
of ditch to a rock corner at the
edge of the bottom; thence nearly
north with an old fence row and
a well marked line of trees pass
ing east of" Albert Crissman's
dwelling house and west of Dab
ney Crissman's dwelling to post
oak near the bank of the road
leading from Rockford to Siloam
and then south on east side of the
road leading from Albert Criss
man's house to Siloam, where it
intersects with said public road;
thence up said road about 440
yards to a marked Spanish oak
corner on the east side of said
road in the Kelley old line; thence
cast to briars branch; thence
down said branch to the old
chestnut corner, formerly Haus
er's or Cornelius' corner; thence
south some degrees west with the
i W. W. Cornelius line to the bank
I of the Yadkin River, formerly a
| branch; thence up the north
I bank of the Yadkin River to the
'beginning, containing 85 acres,
more or less:
| Personal property consisting of
some household and kitchen fur
niture, tools, and other articles of
personal property too numerous
to mention belonging to the es
tate of Dabney Crissman will also
be offered "for sale at the same
time and place by the Adminis
trators of said estate. The said
sales are made for partition
among the heirs at law.
This the 18th day of October.
1937.
CURTIS CRISSMAN AND J. M.
CRISSMAN, Commissioners and
Administrators. 11-11
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