Literary Classifieds

You can probably figure out who this classified is from if you like sleuthing and listen to the song "That's Us / Wild Combination."

"Frank B Norton, Poet Office address, Sidney, Montana. Range on the east Hardscrabble. same brands on the left ribs, for cattle."

Sending our love to federal workers this week, especially those staffing the poet office.

Source: Yellowstone Monitor. July 3, 1913.

"Smoke Hoosier Poet A 10-Cent Cigar." Surrounded by the text "Hoosier Poet" and "Hoosier Poet Cigar."

Source: The Indianapolis journal. Oct. 7, 1894. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015...

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Advertisement. This News Letter is to be continued Weekly; and all Persons who have any Houses, Lands, Tenements, Farms, Ships, Vessels, Goods, Wares or Merchandises, etc.. to be Sold, or Let; or Servants Runaway; or Goods Stollen, may have the same inserted at a reasonable rate."

On April 24 1704, the inaugural issue of America's first successful newspaper, summarized the appetites of America with the first call for classifieds.

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"Unhappy Poets." The Montreal Daily Herald, June 30, 1887. "Great Writers who Lived in Domestic Misery. The predominant theme of poetry is love; and poets, in verse at least, are the most seductive of lovers. Most young people who fall in love, fall also into verse, and if they cannot write rhyme themselves when suffering from this malady, invariably quote from their favorite poet..."

"Unhappy Poets." The Montreal Daily Herald, June 30, 1887.