Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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As when he was a senior And brought such pets to school. For Burda Northrop, next I rang, A moment, then she came, UI live inrsingle blessedness, And Northrop is still my name. A patent medicine I make, A remedy most sure, Six bottles for tive dollars 't is, a And man or beast It will curef' 'Faye Lawrence, elocutionist, Travels from town to town, She is with the High School male quartette, And with them wins renown. An English teacher, Mabel Main, And with her methods new, She makes that study interesting, And quite instructive, too. Then Henry Ballard came to view, 4'Now what is your vocation?'7 I almost tainted as he said, y '4An honest politician. For though, in eighteen ninety-three, T heyhad one at the Fair, I had not seen for many years, , An article so rarei Next to the 'phone Rebecca came, A poetess, no wonder! A handsome home. in Florida,

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I can say that indeed, Upon a wheel, I Hrst gained fame, All know the biz' I made. . Grace Hagadorn, ,of Chicago, next, A kindergarten teacher, Ah! she 'd command obedience, So stern is every feature. She's taught the little ones that song, 4'The Yellow and the Blue, And for a chapel exercise They have to sing it through. My ,phone was next connected With,a studio in New York, Where day by day, Ruth ,sits and draws She thinks, by patient work, r Some day to bean artist great-g We know she willsucceedg Hers is a will that makes a way , ln any time of need. A large farm, Jessie Ballard runs, And in her yearlyraising , Of wheat, potatoes, corn and oats, She has. prospered ' quite amazing. Next steps up to the lphone, a form Decked out inred and yellow 5 'T is Harry Lewis-snake,charmer- A brave an,d,.dar,ing fellow, Who handlesidangerous reptiles now With manner .quite as cool, I ,

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With beauty all around her, 'Mid blooming flowers and singing birds VVhich tend to her inspire, These make her poems widely read, X Filled with poetic fire. Now, Florence Abbott's smiling face, S Is on the lens reiiected, As soon as she left school she wed, QT is just as we eXpected,j She met her husband at the Fair, They lived awhile in Lansing, ' Where she the art of singing taught, And he the art of dancing. Appointed foreign minister, He soon took her to China, That 's all that Florence had to tell, And so I rang for Mina. She spends her time in lecturing, For Womanis Rights she works, And thof her life is threatened oft, She ne'er her duty shirks. With Dewey Seeley, next, I spoke, A prosperous man is he, And running now a chicken-farm, Where Leadley's7' used to be. HEvangelists, terms cheap,77 a sign You read above the door Of the office of two maidens Of the Class of 794. '