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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings of poems that appeared on its pages between 1869 and 1943. The ditties are humorous, romantic, reverent, political or even mocking.
cr1869011603SCGoshornBootsPoem.JPG; Poem about the
cr1879011701CecilHillPoem.jpg; Cecil Hill poem about consuming alcohol, liquor, local option cr1879090501FlatMonetSchemePoem.jpg; The Fiat [Paper] Money Scheme - Satirical poem about the Greenback Party, an agrarian, anti-monopoly political party that did not want the post-Civil War government to return to a gold-based monetary system cr1885090401OdetotheKalamazoo.jpg; Ode to the Kalamazoo River by H.M.S. cr1890012401QuinineRyePoem.jpg; Humorous poem reminding those that take rye (whiskey) and quinine to avoid the ague (malaria) to not forget the quinine. cr1906042001SaugatuckPoemByFranklinMiller.jpg; Saugatuck poem/lyric by Franklin C. Miller and A Feather in your Cap social invitation hosted by Mrs. R.T. Rodgers at the M.E. Church cr1908071701TheKalamazoo-byJaneElizShepardc1838.jpg; Poem about 1838 Indian (Native American) removal by Jane Elizabeth Shepard cr1910082601NeptuneCarnival.jpg; Publicity poem for the Neptune Carnival to be held Aug. 29-31, 1910 cr1910122301XmasGreeting-byThomson-Prayer-byMcDonald.jpg; Christmas poems by Alex. Thomson and Charlotte Ellis McDonald cr1911021001SinceMasA Suffragette-Poem-CEMcDonald.jpg; Poem about a father's suffering (he's hungry and cannot cook) because his wife wants to vote by Charlotte Ellis McDonald cr1916090701SaugatuckOnTheKalamazoo-Poem.jpg; Lucia Wells to natural beauty, mentions Mount Baldhead cr1920011501GoshornLake-PoemByFlorenceWade.jpg; Ode of Goshorn Lake by Florence D. Wade cr1922090801SandsOfSaugatuck-Poem.jpg; Ode to sand by C.C. Bartlett, mentions singing sands cr1923070601InSaugatuck-PoemByGreiner.jpg; July 1923 - Visitor F.W. Greiner recalls the Liberty Pole, ferryman John Wheeler, blacksmith Reed (could be Roger or S.C.), Fishtown, Mt. Baldhead, Saugatuck Union School, Johnson Mill, Douglas Bridge, and local produce. cr1923082401WhatHoMyAncients-Poem.jpg; August 1923 reply to Greiner's cr1924080108AtSaugatuck-Poem.jpg; References to Plug Hat Charlie, Barbino, Elmer E. cr1930060601NowAndThen-Poem-1.jpg cr1930060604NowAndThen-Poem-2.jpg; References Charles Shriver, Henry Schriver, Schriver's Bend, Riverside Hotel, Singapore, Singapore Bank, Wildcat Banks, William Butler, Captain Phelps of Butler Hotel, Stephen Morrison, Judson, digging the new harbor, Fishtown, Mt. Baldhead,stairs and observatory, Jay Myers the ferryman, the steamships North American and South American, steamers Saugatuck and Holland, Oak Openings, the Big Pavilion and Elmer Weed, shipbuilders Martell, Elliott, Bird and Roger, Sawmills, Bird Center, Maplewood Hotel, the Centennial. Penned by Gertrude S. Parkinson Hazen cr1930071801EdithReiderBarronPoem.jpg; Edith Reider Barron Saugatuck Centennial poem cr1931070308NightfallOnTheKalamazoo-Bolles-Poems.jpg; Ode to the river by Howard Bolles cr1933020301VanWallinWritesCalvinCollidgePoem.jpg; Van A. Wallin, head of Wallin Leather Co. of Grand Rapids, poem about Calvin Coolidge cr1933080408Controversy-EdithReiderBarron.jpg; Edith Reider Barron complaining about modernization efforts like street lights, a bridge at the Chain Ferry and renaming River Road/Park Street to Riverside Drive. (Not the same street as the current Riverside Drive north of the Saugatucks cr1933081108SaugatuckCentennial-PoemByFrankGreiner.jpg; Saugatuck Centennial by Dr. Frank Greiner, possibly mentions Doc Heath, Hattie Bird, May Heath cr1934113008AnOwedToTaxes-Poem.jpg; Complaining about taxes, George L. Willis, Sr. in Shelby Kentucky cr1936073108DownAtTheOxBowInn-PoemByEdithReiderBarron.jpg; Edith Reider Barron about the Ox-Bow and the Saugatuck school of summer painting cr1938070101-Poem-Saugatuck-FlorenceEJMitchel.jpg; Florence E.J. Mitchel about the Saugatuck name cr1939102701TheVillageDentist-Poem.jpg; 1939 Ode to the Village Dentist, likely Dr. Herman E. Kreager who died in 1939, by a Summer Patient cr1940011208-104SeasonsInFlorida-AndPoem.jpg; Mrs. David A. Wilder of Massachusetts equates drinking alcohol with longevity cr1940092701BelleOfRiverRoad-Poem-MrsJosephineBarber.jpg; Edith Reider Barron poem celebrating Mrs. Josephine Barber on her 91st birthday cr1943071601SaugatuckPoem-HarryLardner.jpg; Ode by Henry Lardner MWM-InSaugatuck-poem.JPG; Date unknown MWM-OdetoSaugatuck-Metzger-Tasevich-poem.JPG; date unknown MWM-SandsOfSaugatuck-poem-1.JPG; date unknown

2024.01.19

NewspapersLiterature, poetry and memoir

Winthers, Sally

2024.01

Yoder, Chris

Donation, unconditional

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

Digital data in CatalogIt

Mount Baldhead Dune/ParkThomson, Alexander 1844-1914

Goshorn LakeKalamazoo River

Singapore, Michigan 1837-1875

Saugatuck Centennial 1930

03/11/2024

07/20/2025