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American newspaper poetry from 108 years ago. Updated daily.

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108 years ago….

Each day, a poem is presented as it appeared in an American newspaper 108 years ago.

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The New Aristocracy

May 23, 2019

From the Evening World, May 23, 1919. By Herman J. Stich.

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Sources

The source material for this website is from the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspaper pages can be found at the Chronicling America website.

Rights and Reproductions

“The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety. ”

-from About Chronicling America

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