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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 261: Lester’s brother ...
Description: LESTER’S BROTHER Benjamin had little tolerance for Lester’s defeated-man-slumped-in-a-chair attitude. Benjamin was a tireless worker, unceasingly optimistic. He sold from door to door, and he had over the years taken on more and more lines, so that when he found an especially susceptible client he could return month after month with something else to sell. Among the lines he sold was the series of books distributed by Alonzo Clapp, of Albany, the jobber to whom Luther Huber had turned for the distribution of coarse goods, and when Clapp approached Ben with the idea of selling erotic jewelry, Ben...