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October 30, 1937

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fiction

Mr. Whitten, The Shoe Men, and the Weakened Metatarsal

John McCarten

Mr. Whitten tries to buy a pair of shoes but the shoe clerk refuses to sell him the pair he liked saying that they didn't fit.