South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Ezra Oberg is tax collector for the 18th District in Minnesota, N. B.—He has erected six flat buildings since he started to serve (?) the public. May O’Connell and Ellen Hall have a hairdressing establishment in the Syndicate Arcade. Sympathetic reduction in price to old maids. Swenney Bang is leader of the “Go Lightly Chorus.” Serenades a specialty. Agnes Klein keeps all the small boys of class of ’04 busy distributing handbills advertising her sure cure for giggles: 50c per bottle. Eva Enger broke last year’s record for speed as a stenographer. Eva is certainly a hustler. Harry Hoover won the world’s championship as an all-around athlete this year. Ellen Eide (so they say) sets the supper table each night for two. Mildreth Haggard is making a tour of the U. S. lecturing on “Woman’s Rights.” Clara Friedheim is teaching kindergarten. All pupils must be escorted inside the room by their big brothers. Clara Marvin now occupies the position of supervisor of music in the State High Schools of Idaho. Mabel Parker has just sold the second copy of her poems on “Dreams of Spring.” A man who helped house clean last May bought one and a bachelor artist bought the autograph copy. There may be hopes for Mabel yet. Howe’er else changed the class, Our Gertrude is “Sweet William(s)” still; She has become a most learned lass, And in translating Sanskrit shows marvelous skill. Leslie Hughes late in life, after working successively as a geometry professor, a professional mountain climber and a hobo, has taken up the study of medicine. Anna Anderson has made herself very popular with her dancing school. She is at present making a tour of Europe and China, learning the latest steps. 27

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“Lawton and Rossman, Attorneys at Law,” Is a firm well known in town; For George and Claude have both worked hard And fairly earned renown. The two are portly gentlemen, And whatever else they be, In ery way to this very day, Reflect credit on old ’03. Hattie Peterson and Ellen Holmgren are quietly established in two little cottages side by each; and in the afternoons before time to get supper they sometimes read of old Polyphemus and Achemenides as of yore. A certain Miss Clara, well known in the school, Who sits ’cross the aisle from her friend, Julia Buel, Has determined for one thing her temper to rule And thro life's stormy battles to ever keep Cool. Minnie Friedman is assistant librarian at the Public Library. A good place to indulge her literary tastes. Frank Ludolph now owns the grocery across the street from South High. First day of school he usually treats all the little girls to olives. Marian Drew attracted the city’s attention last week, All the town for her recital tickets did seek; But the best of it all was that Marian drew A millionaire artist and took his name too. Frank Mixer is now pictured in the papers as “Padrewski’s successor.” He used to play divinely for the Literary Society at old South High. Nellie Leland takes care of children whose mothers work during the day. No extra charge for chastisement. Elsa and Ella Long have gone to Dakota where Ella has opened a school of piano musk for spinsters under forty-three and Elsa has found a solace in a great big, broad-shouldered Dakotan. Earle Lawler is starring with the Realistic Theater Co. Last week he made love to the heroine in such a natural manner that she fainted and had to be carried off the stage. 26

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Hildegard Ott and Edith Olin are pursuing knowledge to its utmost heights. They always were very studious at school. From common clay, as statues great arise, Just so Frank Clay has risen to great fame; And as a Master Mechanic most wise, Has won himself an honored, lasting name. Zoe Donaldson has won world wide renown by the publication of her latest work entitled “The Pleasures of Travel.” Fannie Zimmerman makes fudge for those sly “U” girls to give to their “bests.” The fame of Irving Robitshek’s hard-headed business sagacity and ability as a successful manager has extended so far as to cause a lucrative offer to be made him which we understand he has accepted. It is a position as manager of an “Old Ladies’ and Orphans’ Home” in Eastern New York. Carl Huntington is a second Will Honeycomb. The trouble with Carl was, he was never content to confine his attentions to one. The Misses Mason, Essie and Maud Are both attaining praise and laud. They both are artists of great renown, And are soon to come back to their native town. Their prices will be within everyone’s reach, For they’re now painting minatures at $300 each. Harry Higgins is prospering and at night when he returns from his office in the Chamber of Commerce, he assists any high school student who finds difficulty with Greek nouns. But Fannie Higgins developed a severe case of the sofa pillow mania and ever since she graduated she has done nothing but make cushions of every conceivable size, shape and color. Since Reuben’s appearance in the “Shakespeare” at school, He’s continually taken the part of a “fool Without doubt he will in the world be known, If he’ll just let writing poems alone. 28