Battle Creek greeting postcard, c. 1910

dc.coverage.temporal	Battle Creek. Michigan, circa 1910	en_US
dc.identifier.other	LPC-004-044-004	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/8888
dc.description	Greeting postcard with poem on the front, c. 1910 Caption on front: BATTLE CREEK Hast ever been to Battle Creek, The town of warped and crooked streets? Where Goguac's waters make one sick, And "end hogs" bar the street car seats? And where the women (ah, how strange!) Run out their tongues while making change! Hast sampled e'er its peanut shells Deceitfully concealed in cream? Gasped as its streamlets boomed their smells, The grieved newcomer's constant theme? Then there's its chief industry's sign, Seen everywhere, "Five cents a shine!" Its sanitarium looms high Hive huge of many a pallid ghost; Its scrapping papers seem to lie, But don't as they each other roast; Town Peerless for fair flirts and fleas- Sunday night shows and blind piggeries. B.C., its initials doth suggest A burg of the "Before Christ" type; A sleepy Rip Van Winkle's nest Where Fogyism smokes his pipe, And sleeps and dreams, and dreams and sleeps, And 'mid earth's rushings only creeps. -Ichabod Bumpkins (No caption on back.) Sent to: Miss Rose Werner, 92 Illinois St., City Sent on: October 9, 1910	en_US
dc.format.extent	300 dpi tif.; xxx KB	en_US
dc.format.medium	b&w postcard	en_US
dc.language.iso	En	en_US
dc.subject	Social Life and Customs	en_US
dc.subject	B.C. Greetings	en_US
dc.title	Battle Creek greeting postcard, c. 1910	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US