Men of the Hour as told in cartoon and verse in the Lewiston Journal 1907. Insurancehttps://digitalmaine.com/men_of_the_hour/1021/thumbnail.jp

Lewiston Journal

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Maine State Library

Charles H. Nudd

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(fI .- . ~ -- 'dfll4e -l? MR. CHARLES H. NUDD OF AUBURN~ I WISH-for this is my wishing day-to hat I could get caught in the rain 'Vhen Nudd goes thru, in his big choo-choo, a'doing good to Ma~ne­It's a kind of rain, I beg to explain. peculial' to Charlie Nudd; For it cures your ills far better than pills and never turns to mud. You may note the air, so debonnair, with which he puts out the stuff; You needn't be told that it's solid gold-a look at friend Nudd is enou~~h; Hut talm my word for the truths I've heard-a square deal, as sUI'e as you live-That he has a quid pro quo, for every blow, that old Tough Luck can give; And when fiat on your back, with a bitter cracl{ and with the old wolf, at the door, You'll bless the day you heard Nudd say "Ily boy, you better insure," I'll bet-for this is my betting day-that if you had a broken limb, You'd never r~ret-and this is my bet-a-snuggJing up to him; For he's one of the kind who doesn't Illind a dollar, more or less-Since be'll give or lend, for the sake of a friend or to succor a man in distress. He's often seen, behind gasolene, a stretching the laws of speed: But he has to go-he was built just so; which is another naIlle for "succeed." He has seen the strife or a strenuous life, and he's been pushed and elbowed. too; But he has a lmacl{ of coming back and getting his honest due; And it gives him a heart for the People's part, a l'ep;ard for the honest poor, 'Who can bless the day they heard Nudd say "l'Iy friend you better insure." 

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Charles H. Nudd

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