Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — KANSAS DRY GOODS LAUREATE. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS DRY GOODS LAUREATE.

A dry goods merchant in Atchison exhausted his patience one day and wrote this poem; which he took around to the Globe office: “There are some shoppers in this town who think they know it all, but they never buy in Atchison — oh, no, this town’s too small. They shop, shop and shop, and on clerks here have no pity, but when they have a cent to spend, they go to Kansas city. But human nature’s much the same, no matter where you go, and while our dear friends think our stores so very slow, in Kansas City, her sister or cousin, to say the least, can’t find a thing to suit her there, and sq goes further east. In Chicago, that big city that is ruled by men from Cork, her sister’s sister failed to find anything this side of New York. While in New York another sister —and there are more than three—can’t find a thing to suit them there, and she goes across the sea. In London and in Paris where still other sisters dwell, I really don’t known where they go, but I hope they go to —.”

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