Item - Metropolitan Pen Pictures: The Old Apple-Women

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 25 no. 30 — page 4
Alternate Title:	The Old Apple-Women
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 30, June 9, 1870 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	June 9, 1870
First Sentence:	Probably there are no "refreshment" venders in New York comprising so many members who are so long and well known as the Apple Women.
Last Sentence:	There are numerous instances, however, where young girls have been rescued from the clutches of these old wretches, through the interference of charitable societies and the police authorities; and it is to be profoundly hoped that such examples will steadily increase.