Posts Tagged ‘1901’

Profile – John Heman Converse circa 1901

[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 20 May-Oct. 1901] New England has always claimed more credit for raising school houses and men than wheat crops and other staples. Her sons have overrun the small confines which mark her boundaries, and have gone forth to every section of the country. By their native shrewdness and energy…

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Profile – Charles R. Flint circa 1901

[[The Father of Trusts as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 20 May-Oct. 1901. Article by W. D. Walker] It would be difficult, in the small space here at command, to give any detailed sketch of Mr. Flint. The closing years of the nineteenth century will be referrred to in the future as the period when…

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Car Poem – Pegasus Up to Date

Poem: Pegasus Up to Date [as it originally appeared in the April 1901 edition of The Automobile magazine, as originally published in Motor News] Ascend, My Love, and take your place With queenly air and matchless grace, And up to legal-limit pace We’ll speed our course afar Along the highway, straight and clear; Of peril…

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Car Poem – The Automobile

Car Poem: The Automobile [as it originally appeared in the Feburary 1901 edition of The Automobile magazine] Did you think that I came from the hand of man. That I sprang from a human brain? Did you think that a genius drew my plan And ‘stablished my earthly reign? The genii back of the ancient…

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