Trade literature, 1899-1932 and n.d.

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Trade literature, 1899-1932 and n.d.

Item: The standard code of the American Railway Association; train rules; single track; adopted April 12, 1899. Item: "The best land", by Edgar A. Guest. (distributed as part of Americanization campaign, ca. 1920). Item: Report of committee of the American Railway Association analysing National Security Owners' car pooling plan and related subjects, Feruary 1, 1923. Item: Cross crossings cautiously, 1930. Item: Look-listen; cross crossings cautiously; what to do and how to do it when "a train is coming", 1931. Item: I'm on the lookout at crossings, are you?, 1932.

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Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert), 1881-1959

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Guest was born Aug. 20, 1881 in Eng., the son of Edwin and Julia Guest. He graduated from Central High School in Detroit (Mich.) in 1897. He started writing when age 14. Guest worked as a newspaper man for the Detroit Free Press, 1895-1959. He did radio presentations and his verse was syndicated across the country. Guest married and had two children. He was frequently referred to as "The Poet of the Plain People". Guest died in 1959. (Information from Michigan Authors, pp. 146-147.) The Clarke H...