Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Ragtime in Reality. [ARTICLE]

Ragtime in Reality.

“Do you have any ragtime down here?” asked the man with the guitar. “It’s always ragtime down here,” replied the hard-times citizen, with a lugubrious sigh, “nothing but rags; hardly any patches.”