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Hobo Stories comic book

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Cover of comic book features a hobo wandering down a trail. Release date unknown.

Hobo’s Wife Cocktail Cardboard train and bottle

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In the early 1970, Heublein Beverage Company marketed a series of premixed cocktails. The company capitalized on a story about the wealthy James Eads Howe who gave up his fortune and became a hobo.

Kings in Disguise comic book

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Comic book cover a hobo inside a boxcar. Misrepresentation of hoboes as violent, criminal people. Release date unknown.

Little Orphan Annie The Hobo

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Cover featuring Annie sitting in a hobo jungle. Description says "when kidnappers are chasing Annie, she had to escape quickly and without notice, so she went looking for the experts -- the hobos!" Release date unknown.

Medicine Bottles & Nicotine Sulfate

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The Hobo Medicine Co. became located in Shreveport, LA as early as November 14, 1914, and Beaumont, Texas by January 1, 1923.

A 1938 letter to a Texas physician from the American Medical Association Bureau of Investigation: "Government chemists…

Menu from Hobo Restaurant and Coffee Shop

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A cozy modern restaurant, snack bar and steak restaurant. In Vagabond Motel in Miami, Florida.

Menu from hobo themed restaurant called Hobos Bar and Grill

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Menu from hobo themed restaurant in Ouakertown, PA. Data unknown.

Menu from hobo themed resturant

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Menu from an unknown hobo themed restaurant. Location and date unknown.

Newport postcard

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Image of hoboes freight hopping on top of hay barrel train.