Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Hobnail Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Hobnail Shoes.

In many parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire shoes for the working classes of both sexes are sold with heavy, square hobnails, whose clatter In the streets In the morning as the wearers go to work is almost intolerable. A favorite trick of a scoundrel Is to place good men in such a position that that are compelled to stand by Mm. X