SIMPOLEONS! Listen! Don’t be blisters on the Bosom of Time, but look like Napoleons of Labour by wearing “Sericine” Silk Ties. Something New. Seklew’s Sample Shilling Set: 3 Ties, 1 Tie-Maker, 1 silver-cased Collar-fastener. 1s the Lot. Agents wanted. Particulars 1d. – Seklew and Co., 11, Chester-street, C.-on-M., Manchester. – Daily Herald March 20, […]
Re the ILP Club Room Controversy To the Editor of the “Bradford Daily Telegraph” Sir, – Mr. A. T. Sutton knows as much about this affair as a pig knows about the perfumes of paradise. I would suggest that this poor misguided human document should cease to exhibit his second-hand thoughts until he has ascertained […]
Daily Herald – Tuesday 16 June 1914 NOVELTIES, New. – Smoker’s Cinema, Mystic Photos, Mysterious Postcards, and Living Picture Postcards. Sample lot 6d. Also one Sericine Silk Necktie and Patent Tie-folder. Sample 6. Listen, Sirfessor Wilkesbarre, Jester-Philosopher, author of “The Swiftest Molecule of Mirth that ever Murdered a Microbe of Misery,” writes in syllabilious […]
Gloucestershire Echo (and) Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 08 December 1923 The Sirfessor will speak (and) The Sirfessor will speak again. Sheffield Independent – Saturday 08 December 1923 The Sirfessor will speak (and) The Sirfessor again. Derby Daily Telegraph – Saturday 08 December 1923 Keyboard Kitty, Madge Taylor (soprano), the Sirfessor, Rachel Hunt (contralto), Victor […]
THE COSTERS’ UNION. UNFURLING THE BANNER. LAST NIGHT’S PROCEEDINGS. Last night (Thursday) Barnard’s Theatre Royal, Woolwich, was crowded at both performances, great interest being manifested in the unfurling of the banner of the United Kingdom Male and Female Streetsellers and Hawkers’ Union. The ceremony was performed by Mr. Will Crooks, M.P.. who, during the performance […]
The Search for “Chicago’s Great Soul” When Chicago was the intellectual and literary heart of America — and incredibly it once was — its nerve center was a rambling old barn in back of 876 1/2 North Dearborn Parkway, or, more specifically, at 18 Tooker Place. You walked down an alley and found, between two […]
Aside from where I stand at any given moment, the centrum mundi of egoism in North America is the Dill Pickle Club of Chicago Illinois. Here are excerpts from the Chicago Tribune on the rising and falling fortunes of the building where Sirfessor Malfew Seklew and Ragnar Redbeard once held court. Jack Jones was the […]
The Optimist’s Ego I do not feel me travelling these rails, Elbowing the herd; For have I not been chosen to be I? Some great wise power pruned so well Through the bloom of teeming life That I am pleased with this I that I am. It picked me a keen gray firey glance To […]
“SURFESSOR OF EGOISM” [sic] is a delightful and informative and previously uncollected work about (and possibly by) Malfew Seklew. This article appeared in the Manchester Guardian (City Edition) Number 27,469 (September 25 1934) on page 20. Do the initials “M. S.” found at the end of the article indicate that Man Without a Soul was […]
John Nichols Beffel (1887 – 1973) was a journalist with sympathies to outsiders and anarchists. Among his many credits are pieces in the American Mercury, the Chicago Daily News, the Detroit Free Press, New Trends, the New York World, and the New York Herald Tribune among others. And, apparently, Cartoons Magazine for December 1911 (Volume […]
