One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money, Volume 1
by Harold Morse Dunphy
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Contents
- Important Publisher’s Announcement
- Preface
- The Way to Wealth
- Self-Protection Against Fraudulent Schemes and Wildcat Investments
- Plan No. 1. Weaving Baskets for Ferns
- Plan No. 2. Professional Hostess
- Plan No. 3. A Teacher Turns Chauffeur
- Plan No. 4. Paid Reading Matter for Newspapers
- Plan No. 5. Vacant Lots Kept Clean
- Plan No. 6. Mint Culture
- Plan No. 7. Clipping Collection
- Plan No. 8. A One-Cow Dairy
- Plan No. 9. Writing Business Letters
- Plan No. 10. Window-Card Suggestions
- Plan No. 11. Starting A Gingham Shop
- Plan No. 12. Crocheting Doll Clothes
- Plan No. 13. Making Ready-to-Wear Aprons
- Plan No. 14. Making Canvas Gloves
- Plan No. 15. Spats for College Girls
- Plan No. 16. A Children’s 5c Play Ground
- Plan No. 17. Co-Operative Cooking
- Plan No. 18. Starting A Tea Room
- Plan No. 19. Bread and Cake Baking
- Plan No. 20. Pencil Sharpening Machine Free
- Plan No. 21. $5,000 A Year from 8⁄2 Acres
- Plan No. 22. Political Manual
- Plan No. 23. Theatre-Goers’ Weekly
- Plan No. 24. Spraying Fruit and Shade Trees
- Plan No. 25. Home Lunch Delivery
- Plan No. 26. Repairing Lawn Mowers
- Plan No. 27. The Inkless Pen
- Plan No. 28. Old Barn Makes $600 A Year
- Plan No. 29. Baking Fruit Cake to Sell
- Plan No. 30. Lawyer Makes Municipal Collections
- Plan No. 31. Brief-Writing for Lawyers
- Plan No. 32. Renting Water Filters
- Plan No. 33. Clips Personal Notices from Newspaper
- Plan No. 34. Publishing A Cook Book
- Plan No. 35. Good Safety Razors for 25 Cents
- Plan No. 36. Lists of Names for Advertisers
- Plan No. 37. Auto Inspection Service
- Plan No. 38. A 5c and 10c Grocery Store
- Plan No. 39. Storing Screens
- Plan No. 40. Button-Hole Making
- Plan No. 41. Typewriting at Home
- Plan No. 42. Raising Angora Cats
- Plan No. 43. Management of Social Functions
- Plan No. 44. New Way to Sell Sheet Music
- Plan No. 45. Supplying Clean Towels
- Plan No. 46. Taking Children’s Pictures
- Plan No. 47. Taught Care of the Hair
- Plan No. 48. Making Harness Dressing
- Plan No. 49. Book That Costs Nothing Sells for 98 Cents
- Plan No. 50. Typewriting Short Stories by Mail
- Plan No. 51. Opening A Gift Shop
- Plan No. 52. Coupons to Aid Sales
- Plan No. 53. Woman Packs Trunks
- Plan No. 54. Vegetables by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 55. Farmers’ Supply Bureau
- Plan No. 56. A Superb Table Relish
- Plan No. 57. Money from A Stereo Camera
- Plan No. 58. A Renting Bulletin
- Plan No. 59. Making Hens Lay in Winter
- Plan No. 60. Making Polishing Cloths
- Plan No. 61. Selling Lists of Names
- Plan No. 62. The Professional Man Shopper
- Plan No. 63. A Thermometer Plan That Paid
- Plan No. 64. Lettuce Growing, $100,000 A Year
- Plan No. 65. A Future in Salad Dressing
- Plan No. 66. Country Paper Advertising
- Plan No. 67. Worked Her Way Through College
- Plan No. 68. $4,800 for Five Calves
- Plan No. 69. Night Patrolman in Small Town
- Plan No. 70. He Raised Ducks and Geese
- Plan No. 71. Collection Agency
- Plan No. 72. Making and Selling Rag Rugs
- Plan No. 73. Photos at 39 Cents A Dozen
- Plan No. 74. Real “Fresh Roasted Coffee”
- Plan No. 75. College Laundry Agency
- Plan No. 76. Co-Operative Store
- Plan No. 77. Starting A Hospital in A Small Town
- Plan No. 78. Making A Soda Fountain Pay
- Plan No. 79. Motion Picture Theaters
- Plan No. 80. From Clerk to Superintendent
- Plan No. 81. Making Over Old Houses
- Plan No. 82. Cultivating Other People’s Back Yards
- Plan No. 83. From Clerk to Hydraulic Engineer
- Plan No. 84. Programs for “Movie” Theaters
- Plan No. 85. Messenger Service
- Plan No. 86. Watch Fobs for 5 Cents Each at College
- Plan No. 87. Started Shorthand School
- Plan No. 88. Opening A Mending Shop
- Plan No. 89. Home Wall-Paper Agency
- Plan No. 90. Catering for Lodge People
- Plan No. 91. Growing Mushrooms
- Plan No. 92. Basket Making
- Plan No. 93. Potato Chips and Doughnuts
- Plan No. 94. Poultry Raising for A Boy
- Plan No. 95. Watch Insurance
- Plan No. 96. Collecting Old Witness Fees
- Plan No. 97. Doubling the Business of Hotels
- Plan No. 98. A Church Paper
- Plan No. 99. Photographing Animals for Sale
- Money-Making Plans for Women
- Plan No. 108. Home Work That Pays
- Plan No. 109. Sharp Saws for Butchers
- Plan No. 110. Selling Flags by Mail
- Plan No. 111. Free Movies for Children
- Plan No. 112. Live Alligators for Boy Agents
- Plan No. 113. Desk Room in A City Office
- Plan No. 114. Ready-to-Make Dresses, Etc
- Plan No. 115. Became A Secretary-by-Mail
- Plan No. 116. Free Motion-Picture Tickets
- Plan No. 117. Sweet Potato Slips by Mail
- Plan No. 119. Electrotypes for Country Merchants
- Plan No. 120. Grease and Oil Remover
- Plan No. 121. Dinners from Country by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 122. Lunches for Factory Workers
- Plan No. 123. A Currant Farm
- Plan No. 124. Shopping for Friends
- Plan No. 125. The Milk Diet
- Plan No. 127B. Making Orchard and Garden Pay
- Plan No. 137. Glass Polishing Paste
- Plan No. 138. Hair Dressing as A Profession
- Plan No. 139. Clipping Bureau
- How a Wife Helped Her Husband
- Plan No. 145. Artificial Maple Syrup
- Plan No. 146. Carbolic Face Cream
- Plan No. 147. Woman Dress and Style Adviser
- Plan No. 148. Nurses’ Bureau
- Plan No. 149. Dress-Cutting School
- Plan No. 150. Etiquette and Dancing School
- Plan No. 151. Woman’s Exchange
- Plan No. 152. Shopping as A Profession
- Plan No. 153. Drugless Treatment for Constipation
- Plan No. 154. Raise A Few Sheep
- Plan No. 155. Making Cozy Corners
- Plan No. 156. Briefing the Briefs
- Plan No. 157. Magazine Circulating Library
- Plan No. 158. Made Money from Mending
- Plan No. 159. Beauty Bags Free
- Plan No. 160. Dustless Dusters
- Plan No. 161. Copying Pad
- Plan No. 162. Cleaning Compound Powder
- Plan No. 163. Sewing Lessons for Children
- Plan No. 164. Cucumber Culture
- Plan No. 165. Palmistry by Mail
- Plan No. 166. Starting A Weekly Paper
- Plan No. 167. Marketing A Preparation
- Plan No. 168. Dealing in Nut Meats
- Plan No. 169. Started A Luncheon Club
- Plan No. 170. Two Sisters Sold Spectacles
- Plan No. 171. Keeping Brood Sows
- Plan No. 172. Farm Woman’s Ways of Making Money
- Plan No. 184. Money-Making for Women
- Plan No. 188. Opened A Beauty Parlor
- Plan No. 189. Made A Hand Laundry Pay
- Plan No. 190. Making Inks and Mucilage
- Plan No. 191. Newspaper Correspondent
- Plan No. 192. An Exchange Mart
- Plan No. 193. Auto and Carriage Polish
- Plan No. 194. Singing Songs Through A Megaphone
- Plan No. 195. A Subscription Agency
- Plan No. 196. Publishing Programs
- Plan No. 197. Church Post Cards
- Plan No. 198. Making Sachet Powders Pays Woman’s College Expenses
- Plan No. 199. Making Carpet Cleaner
- Plan No. 200. They Picked Berries
- Plan No. 201. Wrote A Church History
- Plan No. 202. A Liquid Glycerine Soap
- Plan No. 203. Making Air Pencils
- Plan No. 204. Profit from an Air-Pencil
- Plan No. 205. A Home-Made Water Filter
- Plan No. 206. Condensed Milk
- Plan No. 207. A Newspaper Man’s Plan
- Plan No. 208. Perfumed Bags for the Bath
- Plan No. 209. Vinegar Made Prom Strawberries
- Plan No. 210. Canned Fruit and Vegetables
- Plan No. 211. Pickles and Relishes Preserved
- Plan No. 212. Her Poultry Plan
- Plan No. 213. Sells Flowers and Garden Seeds
- Plan No. 214. Bee-Keeping
- Plan No. 215. Pickled Plums
- Plan No. 216. Home-Made Fireless Cookers
- Plan No. 217. Civil Service as A Career
- Plan No. 218. Wayside Tea House
- Plan No. 219. Illustrated Poultry Primer
- Plan No. 221. Raising Canaries
- Plan No. 223. Small-Town Manicuring
- Plan No. 224. Shampooing and Hair Dressing
- Plan No. 225. Marketing Eggs by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 226. Dressing Christmas Dolls
- Plan No. 227. Paper Covers for School Books Assist in Putting Man Through College
- Plan No. 228. Making Pan-Lifters
- Plan No. 229. Money in Winter Bulbs
- Plan No. 230. Selling Hickory Nuts
- Plan No. 231. Thumbless Mittens for Children
- Plan No. 232. Tailored Hats
- Plan No. 233. Selling Potted Plants
- Plan No. 234. Basket Making
- Plan No. 235. Growing Mushrooms
- Plan No. 236. Lunches for School Children
- Plan No. 237. Desiccated Vegetables
- Plan No. 238. A Profitable Advertising Plan
- Plan No. 239. Backyard Poultry Keeping
- Plan No. 240. Capons and Caponizing
- Plan No. 241. Liquid Carpet Cleaner
- Plan No. 242. A White Shoe Dressing
- Plan No. 243. A Traveling Typist
- Plan No. 244. Making Hens Lay All the Year
- Plan No. 245. How to Make Cottage Cheese on the Farm
- Plan No. 246. Marketing Butter and Cheese by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 247. Made Shirts for Men
- Plan No. 248. Secret of Showing Samples—Company Agent Becomes A Welcome Salesman
- Plan No. 249. Assist Musical Composers
- Plan No. 250. Honing Razors by Mail
- Plan No. 251. Successful Sale, Yet Didn’t Advertise
- Plan No. 253. Amateur Printer and Hand Press
- Plan No. 254. Making Cushions, Pillows, Etc
- Plan No. 255. Bathroom Exclusively for Women
- Plan No. 256. The Guinea Fowl
- Plan No. 257. Souvenir Post Cards
- Plan No. 258. Novel Canvassing Method
- Plan No. 259. A Circulating Library in Small Town
- Plan No. 260. A New Way to Sell Memorials
- Plan No. 261. Growing and Selling Potted Plants
- Plan No. 262. Money from Geese
- Plan No. 263. Started with the Library Column in Newspaper
- Plan No. 264. Canning for City People
- Plan No. 265. “Landscaping” City Lots
- Plan No. 266. Bossing Other People’s Gardens, or Garden Management
- Plan No. 267. Repairing Lawn Mowers
- Plan No. 268. Money from Small Lunches
- Plan No. 269. A Novel Lunch Plan
- Plan No. 270. Old Street-Car Becomes Dining Room
- Plan No. 271. Fruit Preserved and Marketed by A Woman
- Plan No. 272. A Woman Landscape Artist Assisted an Architect
- Plan No. 273. A Woman Made Huckleberry Pie
- Plan No. 274. Little Girls’ Cooking School
- Plan No. 276. A Home Store
- Plan No. 277. Collecting and Selling Names
- Plan No. 279. Cardboard Kitchen List
- Plan No. 280. The City Home Garden
- Plan No. 281. Making Clothing Fireproof
- Plan No. 282. Making Pullets Pay
- Plan No. 283. Pumpkins in Powder Form
- Plan No. 284. Money in Horse-Radish
- Plan No. 285. Profitable Plain Sewing
- Plan No. 288. Early Cucumbers
- Plan No. 289. Raising Sweet Peas
- Plan No. 290. A Notion Store at Home
- Plan No. 291. Making Cottage Cheese
- Plan No. 292. Developing and Printing Photographs
- Plan No. 293. “Citronette” Cucumbers
- Plan No. 294. Canning Vegetables, Etc
- Plan No. 295. Small-Town Catering
- Plan No. 296. Perfume for A Sick Room
- Plan No. 297. Raising Capons
- Plan No. 298. A Losing Grocery Business Made A Success
- Plan No. 299. Bringing Women to A Store
- Plan No. 300. A Traveling Grocery
- Plan No. 301. Sales Manager Becomes Realty Owner
- Plan No. 302. Hot Soups for Business Girls
- Plan No. 303. Bread and Cake Baking Sold to Woman Exchange
- Plan No. 304. Making Use of Surplus Apples
- Plan No. 305. Selling Eggs at A High Price
- Plan No. 306. Free Recipe Books to Farmers
- Plan No. 307. Trust Plan Worked Locally
- Plan No. 308. Ice Wool Shawls by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 309. Cigars for Farmers
- Plan No. 310. A New Trust Plan
- Plan No. 311. A Good Coupon Idea
- Plan No. 312. Sell Goods on Installments by Parcel Post
- Plan No. 313. Medical Vegetable Garden
- Plan No. 314. Improving A Market
- Plan No. 315. Boosted Hubby’s Bakery
- Plan No. 316. Making Stocking Patterns
- Plan No. 317. A Rhubarb Bed That Paid
- Plan No. 318. Purebred Poultry
- Plan No. 319. Sorting and Selling
- Plan No. 321. Dustless Dusters and Oil Mops
- Plan No. 322. What A Busy Country Girl Did
- Plan No. 323. A Wife Who Bought A Store
- Plan No. 324. Cleaned and Repaired Cisterns
- Plan No. 325. Grease-Eradicating Tablets
- Plan No. 326. A Social Register
- Plan No. 327. Character Reading from Photographs
- Plan No. 328. Selling Ice Cream, Bananas, Etc., in the Country
- Home-made Candy Making That Paid
- Plan No. 337. Distributing Circulars
- Plan No. 338. General House-Repairing
- Plan No. 339. Buying Old Barrels
- Plan No. 340. Selling Popped Wild Rice
- Plan No. 341. Renewing Typewriter Ribbons
- Plan No. 342. Ran A Paddle-Wheel
- Plan No. 343. Money in Potato Chips
- Plan No. 344. Blind Man Makes Money
- Plan No. 346. Supplying House Numbers
- Plan No. 347. Post Card Series
- Plan No. 348. Getting Magazine Subscriptions by Mail
- Plan No. 349. Making Rubber Stamps
- Plan No. 350. Picture Framing
- Plan No. 351. Selling Popcorn
- Plan No. 352. Dressing for Carriage or Automobile Tops
- Plan No. 353. Opened A News Depot
- Plan No. 355. He Sold Buttermilk
- Plan No. 356. Newspaper Obtained Business by Long Distance Phone
- Plan No. 357. Club Plan for Household Goods
- Plan No. 358. Street Car Time Card on Clock
- Plan No. 359. Making Hair Chains
- Plan No. 360. Newspaper Man Obtained Business When Sick
- Plan No. 361. Eye Specialist
- Plan No. 362. Outside House-Cleaning
- Plan No. 363. Advertising on Fly Paper
- Plan No. 364. The Apples and the Parcel Post
- Plan No. 365. From China Painting to Sausage Making
- Plan No. 366. What A Teacher Did “on the Side”
- Plan No. 367. Made Money in Salted Peanuts
- Plan No. 368. Selling Powder with A Premium
- Plan No. 369. Lawyer Who Attends to Business
- Plan No. 370. Washington Man Goes Through Eastern University
- Plan No. 371. The Way A Boy from Indiana Went Through the University of Michigan
- Plan No. 372. A Student’s Way Through College
- Plan No. 373. He Went Through the Law College at Washington, D. C
- Plan No. 374. Farmer in A Mining District
- Plan No. 375. An Ink That Stands All Tests
- Plan No. 377. A Cement Stick That Sticks
- Plan No. 378. Iceless Refrigerator
- Plan No. 379. Raising Belgian Hares
- Plan No. 380. Liquid Glass—Three in One
- Plan No. 381. Sharpening Razor Blades
- Plan No. 382. Fumigating Hen-House Strips
- Plan No. 383. Selling Limes by Mail
- Plan No. 384. Training School for Office Boys
- Plan No. 385. Gave Talking Machines Away
- Plan No. 386. Circulating Music Library
- Plan No. 387. “Knock-Down” Picture Frames
- Plan No. 388. Sanitary Handkerchiefs
- Plan No. 389. A Parcel-Post Exchange
- Plan No. 390. Group-Circularizing
- Plan No. 391. Made Common Pictures Look Like Oil Paintings
- Plan No. 392. Sold Another Man’s Soap
- Plan No. 393. Making Raised-Letter Signs
- Plan No. 394. Money in Cereal Coffee
- Plan No. 395. Girl Earned A College Education
- Plan No. 396. Woman Obtains Musical Education on $45
- Plan No. 397. A Woman Gets an Education and $500
- Plan No. 398. Raising Gold Fish
- Plan No. 399. Woman Graduated with $400 Debts Paid
- Plan No. 400. Taught Dancing in Spare Time
- Plan No. 401. Money in Toy Balloons
- Plan No. 402. Motion Pictures in Small Town Churches
- Plan No. 403. A Chafing Dish Annex
- Plan No. 404. Crystallized Fruits and Nuts
- Plan No. 405. Shelling and Selling Nuts
- Plan No. 406. Spit-Fire Bottle
- Plan No. 407. Home Scenes for Calendars