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grocery stores. I’ve found that a live grocery and meat market, where a
number of women shop every day, is as good a location as you can get.
Women are always worried about their weight. They want to know whether
they’ve gained or lost, and to make sure, like to weigh themselves on the
same scale all the time. Since they make a practice of doing most of their
shopping for meat and groceries in a neighborhood store, they patronize the
penny scale set up there.”

There are several manufacturers of coin-operated scales. They all furnish
detailed plans to help you interest merchants in keeping your scales in the
front of the store, or in a spot near the cash register, where people standing
around to be served may step on the scale. These instructions make it easy for
anyone who is a hustler, and can make a convincing sales talk, to be
successful from the start.

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FTER the real estate bubble burst in Florida, Sadie Miller, like many others,
was broke. In looking around for ways and means of getting back on her feet,
she discovered “shrimping.” When she first opened her shrimp dock, she had
a man running it, but after he failed to come back from a vacation up North,
she decided to manage it herself.

“Shrimping” is hard work for anyone, but particularly hard for a woman.
During the busy season, the work goes on night and day. In rubber overalls
and hip boots, Sadie Miller and her helpers search for the elusive shrimp so
much in demand as bait by fishermen. As shrimps vary their habitat from day
to day, they must be hunted. Small or large—the size matters little. The
fisherman just wants fresh live bait. Because they are harder to find in winter,
they are worth more. In January, February and March, when they are scarce,
they bring 50 or 75 cents a dozen. In summer, the price runs as low as 25
cents a hundred. However, Sadie Miller never sells her catch for less than a
dollar a hundred.