Buick

Vehicle registration for a 1929 Buick Coupe. Dated February 1 1941.

Found in "Train Your Dog With Kindness" by Willy Necker, published by Hall Pub. Co., 1953.

I Cannot Root for Gertude Stein

Poem on pink paper:

They Don't Speak English in Paris

I wish that I could get in line
And shout the praise of Gertrude Stein
In any high class hullabaloo
I rather like to holler to;
I hate like anything to miss
Smelling the roar of Ah! Boom! Siss!
And most particularly when
THe cheers are led by famous men.
The fault I'm sure is solely mine,
But I cannot root for Gertrude Stein.
For Gertrude Stein I cannot root
I cannot blow a single toot;
I must preserve a dreary silence
Tho' doomed thereby to d????? violence.
I'm fond of women, also wine?
But not the song of Gertrude Stein.
No laurels can I pass, alas.
No pidgeons in the grass, alas.
Oh woefully must I decline
To dance in the street for Gertrude Stein.
O, Gertrude, Gertrude, is it me?
Couldn't it possibly be thee?
Not in the face of all the roses
Avoided by they? who ????
From Walla Walla to the Rhine
Carillons sang for Gertrude Stein
Rung not by nitwit nincompoops
But geniuses in pervert groups.
Those p?? of talent most divine
Scratch ????? for Gertrude Stein
U???? all their personal muttons
Tyey genuflect to tender buttons.
Why must I grunt, a lovely swine,
Rejecting the pearls of Gertrude Stein?
Why can't I praise in cataracts
The Four such Saints in these such Acts?
Four Saints, Three Acts, Three Acts in fact
The act gets a Saint and a third an act??
And Lizzie Borden took three axe
And gave her mother tongue forty whacks
And a hundred eminent artistic figures
Swallowed the woodpile including the n???es
I prefer to wade their Rasselas
To pidgeons in the grass, alas
The English language is better as language
Share spattered like a lettuce & mayonnaise sausage
So let those who will read Alice B. Toklas,
And I'll take the complete works
of Shakespeare and a box of choclas.

--Love this, and Gert. Stein-

Found in "1984" by George Orwell. Published by Signet, 1961.

Smile

Black and white photo, 5 inches by 7 inches.

Found in "The Rock Book" by Carol Lane Fenton, published by Doubleday & Co., 1946.

Ed: Another great photo today, must be a sign of good things to come.

King of the Wind

Photo of a man on a horse, writing on the back is faded, but I believe it reads "JACK O. 1945."

Found in "Five Weeks in a Balloon" by Jules Verne, published by W.L. Allison Co., circa 1880s.

Ed: This is really fantastic photograph, it has a clarity and glossiness you don't see with older photos. I apologize for my skills on the digital camera, the image above really doesn't do it justice. This may be my new favorite FB.

People Leave Stuff In Other Places

In record sleeves, for example. Check out the finds at the excellent WFMU FM blog.

Posed

Black and white portrait of a child, photo is 4 inches by 6 inches. No writing.

Found in "Direct Examination of Witnesses" by Howard Hilton Spellman, published by Prentice-Hall, 1971

The Greatest

Letter with Rolling Stone Magazine letterhead, dated April 1st, 1976.

Dear Alan,
Many thanks for getting me a table last night. I enjoyed the Cate Bros. show enormously.

I look forward to meeting you again, soon.

Best regards,
Don
Donald E. Welsh

DEW:lak
encl.

P.S. Enclosed is a copy of the Muhammad Ali book which ROLLING STONE did a cover on several months ago.

Found in "The Greatest" by Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham, published by Random House, 1975.

ed: Looks like Mr. Welsh was an ad director at RS.

Dr. Sheldon's Sanitarium

Advertising card, 9 inches by 4 inches.

Dr. Sheldon's Sanitarium
Established July 1st 1910
Springboro PA
Positively Cures
All Liquor and Drug Addictions
Morphine Habit and all Addictions to Opium
Derivatives, Cocaine, Chloral, Tobacco
and Cigarette Habits
Our location (Springboro PA) is ideal for an institution of this character. It is a beautiful resort with numerous attractions and natural advantages, among which is a picturesque lake which affords boating, bathing, fishing, and skating, and the water from ther famous Springboro Mineral Springs is acknowledged by all to be equaled by few and excelled by none as an all-around medicinal drinking water
The Best Equipped and Best Conducted Institution of its Kind in the Country
WE MAKE STRONG CLAIMS - LET US SUBMIT OUR PROOFS
Write for Rates and further information to DR. SHELDON'S SANITARIUM, SPRINGBORO, PA
Both Phones - Western Union Telegraph - Lock Box 121

Found in "A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages" by Mariano Velazquez De La Cadena, published by D. Appleton & Co., 1906

Breakaway

Song lyrics in pencil, bottom right corner missing.

Breakaway
Let's do the breakaway
Get hot and shake away
It's got the snappiest
little passion
Three times upon
your heels
Oh! How good it feels
You get the snappiest
little sensation

Write a little no upon
??ur toes
?????n't forget to dot the I
????????k above your no goodness
?????????w it is as easy as y
?????????e on and breakaway
????????get hot and shake
?????????, you'll learn to do the
(reverse)
breakaway, by and by.

Found in "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabakov, published by Putnam, 1958 (6th printing)

Ed: Yes, it's a real song.

Monsoon

Folded letter, two sides of writing:

Dear George + Dick -
Here is my current project - to incorporate Monsoon into our nation's schools.
I've used Monsoon in my classes - 9th grade. I've used it insead of Nectar in a Seive for my India unit. Although I love Nectar, Monsoon was gobbled up by 100% of my students (I actually had juniors + seniors coming down to borrow "that book on India that the 9th graders are reading"!!) I have yet to find a student who didn't feel as though they had spent time in India after reading the book.
It has also motivated them to get involved in world affairs. The story is about a teenager who does get involved + the students can relate to it. My students, as a result of reading Monsoon did the following 1. started a sister-city ??????? project with the Societ Union 2. created an international exchange student day 3. "adopted" a child through Love the Children 4. just found out the other day that Sherwood Boehlert is cosponsoring a bill to sponsor UNICEF's drive to inoculate all of the world's children against the 6 most deadly, preventable diseases. Several of my students had joined an organization called RESULTS (political lobbying group) and as a result of our letters, Boehlert cosponsored the bill. I think that was a very big learning experience about how government works + the possibilities that anyone can make a difference.
Monsoon was the spark. Out of my 10 years experience in teaching, I have yet to find a book like this.
I would like you to tell you student teacher about it. It would be a great tool for teaching India + it would be something that would be sure to get even usually unmotivated students eagerly involved with India and global studies.
Consider buying copies for the soc. studies ed library. As my mother always tells me, "Try it, you'll like it."
Any support you can give me on my latest project (names of people who might be interested, etc) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Dan ?????

Found in: "Wolverine '71: Yearbook of Worcester High School"

Ed: I assume the book he is referring to is this one.