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The occasion: his coronation as king of the League of Hoboes of the World.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus acclaimed in Cincinnati last week by Tom Shea, poet laureate of the hoboes, was handsome, bald-headed Jeff Davis, head of Hoboes of America, Inc. and the International Itinerant Workers Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

"King of the Hoboes" Jeff Davis proposed that U. S. railroads put benches in box cars, charge a cent a mile to unemployed rovers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hoboes first established a niche in American history when Civil War veterans rode West looking for work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some Reflections on Automobiles and "Hoboes" Early the next morning I started for Marysville, the last leg in my journey, and a long twenty miles distant.

From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Beasley, Thomas Dykes