Many people find telephone conversations more convenient than personal interviews, and it is every day displacing the stenographer and the traveling salesman.
Here, several years before he runs for the U.S.House of Representatives in New Hampshire, Stillson is a young travelling salesman hawking Bibles to midwest country folk.
When a traveling salesman named, Hamilton Carhartt asked railroad workers how their uniforms could be improved, he used his findings to create the first Carhartt product, a pair of overalls.
" Like a traveling salesman or a school-teacher on vacation. I shouldn't be surprised if he was living with some little trollop in a studio in Montmartre" .
Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.
The next one was a middle-aged traveling salesman, faithful to his wife and a good family man back home, who turns into a ravenous beaver hunter as soon as he gets on the road.
It was cold and cheerless in the commercial room where I ate my dinner alone at a large table laid for six. I was served by the slatternly Katie. I asked if I could have a fire.