Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1902 — Would Bring any Poet to Lift, [ARTICLE]

Would Bring any Poet to Life.

Janitor—Say, dere’s a guy out here wid a bill. Ruyters Kramp (a poet)—Tell him I’m dead. Janitor—So I did, but he says dis is a ten-dollar bill ter buy a advertising poem. Ruyters Kramp—Tell him I’ve just been resuscitated.