world war history : daily records and comments as appeared in american and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926 (new york) 1928- — little people
- Date of account
- Newspaper page published 1914-10-12
- Location
- new york, new york, united states
- Source
- Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
- Reference
- world war history : daily records and comments as appeared in american and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926 (new york) 1928- · 1914-10-12 · page 156
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English OCR
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
A 1914-10-12 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “little people”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe Little People. By Charles Hanson Towne. The little, simple people are they who shall go down, Not Kings and Kaisers, Emperors, and unavailing Czars; The good, God-fearing people who never Saw a crown—• ’Tis they who know the power of guns, and feel the curse of Mars. It is the little people who must suffer and weep, They wjjo do the wise things, the good things of the earth; They who till the farmlands, they who softly reap The grain and the harvest, and build fires on the hearth. The good folk, the kind folk—’tis they who run toward Hell When Kaiser and Emperor dare to urge them forth; Forgotten ...
Historical context
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Modern context
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