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  • There was a capmaker who had duly qualified, by passing an examination and paying for his trade papers, to live in a certain city.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • The capmaker was obliged to travel to St. Petersburg, where he had qualified in the first place, to repeat the examination.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • The capmaker was obliged to travel to St. Petersburg, where he had qualified in the first place, to repeat the examination.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • There was a capmaker who had duly qualified, by passing an examination and paying for his trade papers, to live in a certain city.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • There was a capmaker who had duly qualified, by passing an examination and paying for his trade papers, to live in a certain city.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • The capmaker was obliged to travel to St. Petersburg, where he had qualified in the first place, to repeat the examination.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • So that we may speed it the more let us go with the capmaker a while and get his point of view.

    IV. The Blight of the Double-Decker 1902

  • The Liebe school had been attended only by children of good families, while in the Schmidt school a Count Waldersee and Hoym, the son of a capmaker and dealer in eatables, sat together on the same bench.

    The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

  • So, though I am not a hatter, I will again turn capmaker, and those who have heads may try on my wares; those who have none won't touch them.

    Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

  • Polish capmaker, home in Stanton Street tenement, 76-80.

    The Battle with the Slum 1881

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