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(Excerpt from Abe Martin's Almanack
Procure a box of roac...)
Excerpt from Abe Martin's Almanack
Procure a box of roach powder from the nearest drug store, being careful to have the druggist guar antee it. Scatter the powder freely in the crevices about the sink and pantry, repeating the dose each day until the powder is all gone. In a few days the roaches will arrive at the conclusion that you are not going to buy any more and will desert the premises.
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If the town is dry, a grand m...)
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If the town is dry, a grand marshal drinks in a box stall. If it is wet, he drinks in the saddle at the handiest side door.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard was an American humorist, caricaturist, and creator of the character of Abe Martin.
Background
Frank McKinney was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, in 1868. He was the son of Thomas and Sarah Jane (Miller) Hubbardand the grandson of Capt. John B. Miller, who for years toured the Middle West, with a wagon theatrical stock company. Thomas Hubbard published the Bellefontaine Examiner, a newspaper which had been in the Hubbard family since before the Civil War. Frank McKinney Hubbard was known as "Kin" throughout his life.
Education
He was educated in the public schools of Bellefontaine and learned the printing trade in his father's office.
Career
As a youth he achieved more than local renown as a producer of blackface minstrel shows. His interest in the theatre and circus never waned. As a sketch artist he was entirely self-taught. In 1891 he left Bellefontaine to work on the Indianapolis News as a police reporter and artist. He said in later years that when he received his first order to make a line cut from a photograph, he knew nothing about the process but invented his own methods of transferring a picture to chalk plate.
As a writer and sketch artist he won praise for his reporting of fires and police cases. After several years with the News, he returned to Bellefontaine to work in the post-office under his father, who was appointed postmaster. Later he was employed successively by the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune and by the Mansfield (Ohio) News. In 1901 he returned to the Indianapolis News to remain until his death.
While touring Indiana on a campaign train in 1904, he made several sketches of rustic characters, and on November 16, 1904, one of these was printed in the News, with a quip of two sentences written by the artist. The feature appealed to the editor, who urged Hubbard to prepare a series. The first of these appeared December 31, 1904. Hubbard named the character Abe Martin. Because he signed his drawings "Hub. ," the drawings and sayings, which were soon syndicated, became identified with the name Abe Martin.
His collections in book form appeared at frequent intervals beginning with the publication, in 1906, of Abe Martin, Brown County, Indiana, and ending with Abe Martin's Town Pump (1929). He also produced a weekly essay, "Short Furrows, " which was syndicated. His powers of observation were such that he made his drawings in his office, from memory, without the aid of sketches or notes. He had a natural sense of contrast. His humor was marked by indirect allusions thinly screened by dialect and crude drawing. "Th' blamdest sensation, " said Abe on one occasion, "is havin' a doorknob come off in your hand. " In 1924 he toured around the world.
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Views
Quotations:
"Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. "
"There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together. "
"Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. "
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Will Rogers, perhaps the most active of his contemporaries, said of him: "No man in our generation was within a mile of him. . I have said it from the stage and in print for twenty years" (Indianapolis News, December 27, 1930).
Interests
His favorite recreation was gardening. He steadfastly declined lecture, radio, and theatre offers, explaining that he preferred to remain at home with his family and garden.
Connections
Hubbard was married on October 12, 1905, to Josephine Jackson of Indianapolis who with two children, Thomas and Virginia, survived him.