This will be a long post. I've studied my copy of this "200 recitations." I'm going to post some of the more obscure and interesting titles, with the occasional author as listed. There are many well known poets listed, such as Robert Service, Rudyard Kipling,Longfellow, Poe. I will not list these poems as I know they are very available.

Reading it complety, I suspect that this was published in new York City, during the depression years. There are some amazing ads, including one for "Sex Secrets." SHEEUH, I thought that was a modern invention!

Here's the list of some of the more obscure poems, etc.: (note, I have tried to copy the spelling accuratly)


Grifters Under The Skin;
Heaven Will Pertect he Workin' Girl;
I Have A Rendezvous With Death, by Allen Seeger;
Prosperity;
The Suicide;
Piper of Folly;
Women and Matches;
Two Sinners, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox;
The Hoboes Convention, by George Liebst;
How Did You Die, by Edmund Vance Cooke;
Pirates;
The Philosophy Of A Hoboe, by Dan O'Brien;
The Child Prayer, by Dan O'Brien;
Asleep At The switch;
The Panhandle, by Berton Braley;
Beautiful Snow, by James William Watson;
The Ace In The Hole, by Al Wilson;
The Phantom Dray, by Charles Blue;
A Hop Fiends Dream;
Bulldozed;
The Kid's Last Fight Fight, by Aaron Hoffman;
Empties Comming Back;
Ridin' On The Rods, by A. Leslie;
Life Is But A Game OF Cards;
Sister Of The Cross Of Shame;
Railroad Jack;
Lonesome Joe, by Casey Davis;
The Bo From Zanziba;
The Tramp, by C.B. Clark;
Song Of The Shirt, by Thomas Hood;
The Gila Monster Route, by Post and Norton;
Somebody's Mother;
Arizons, by Charles Brown;
The Road, by Ben (hobo) Benson;
The Hermit Of Shark Tooth Shoal;
The Hell Bound Train;
Whisperin' Bill;
Hobo Bill's Last Ride.

If any of you died in the wool reciters would like one of these poems, just PM me.

CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson