The reason I posted this is a bit off-topic, but I didn't know where to put it just now. Now I've moved it to a new thread.
I found an old book at archive.org, called ANTHOLOGY OF NEWSPAPER VERSE FOR 1925, Seventh Annual Issue. It includes some intersting old songs. I'm wondering if there are other anthologies for other years.

Once upon a time, newspapers published a lot of poetry - much of it bad, but with some wonderful stuff mixed in. One of the best-known of these newspaper poems is The Face on the Barroom Floor. This was originally published in the newspaper in Ashtabula, Ohio. We're still looking for that original newspaper version, by the way.

-Joe-