Jake Warner was an award winning printer, writer, and collector of amateur journals. Jake's Journals showcases Jake's collection of amateur printed matter.
"She is a nightingale
And I a starling
Who cannot sing as well.
Her words have sweet sorcery
Of their own making.
Mine can cast no magic spell."
Excerpt from Gloria by Merry B. Harris.
Maybelle Iren Burke shares a story about a snowstorm and pancakes in Glenn, Michigan, in The Showcase, Number 68.
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Helpful Hannah’s Household Hints:
For beginners at house cleaning – never strike the floor forcefully with a shovel. It’s bad for tile.
Our Special, Volume 2, Number 4
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"She was beyond compare, and
When I saw her sitting there, a
Lil’ green man on the table
Winked and said, “It’s all a fable.”
But as the years come and go,
Down, ‘way deep in my heart I know,
The lil’ green man was wrong, for
She gave to me a golden song."
Excerpt of Little Green Man by Percy Ervafaythe in J. Ed Newman's, The Web, Number 88
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"Don’t cry or whimper if the road is rough,
Falter not because stones cut your feet –
For Life is a race and the goal you’ll reach
When all obstacles you bravely defeat."
Onward, by Josephine H. Voracek
More Poems and Stories in The Battersean, Number 17
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In The Boxwooder, Number 114, Jake chronicles his second year of bicycling, documenting his completion of a second century and his failure to complete a third. He talks about biking on Hatteras Island in North Carolina, and his strategies for biking in cold winter weather in the Washington, D.C. area.
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In the Gryphon, Volume 3, Number 8, Walter Brovald publishes Part IV of The Moon, and discusses a supreme court decision on the First Amendment.
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"A curse on all those optimists!
I’ll show them with swords or fists;
But words are still my biggest stay;
I learn a new one every day.
And denounce all who would declare –
“Tis always spring if thoughts are fair."
The Cynic, a poem by Walter Ward Hamill and part three of Forget, a story by Jaroslav Chmelicek, debuted in The Yankee, Volume 1, Number 6.
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"Life’s waters roll on over
A secret deep below;
It’s best to not uncover
Some things we must not know."
by Maybelle Irene Burke in The Showcase, Number 67.
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#GreatDepression#DesertFacts#Storytelling#Writing#Poetry#PoetryLover#TheShowcase #AmateurJournalism #UnitedAmateurPress #ExpressYourself #WritingCommunity
"The voice of experience would plead against a certain over-eagerness to please the critics, a quite unnecessary timorousness lest the writer unwittingly offend. Let these authors and editors come to quick realization of these truths, fundamental to success in self-expression. Forget the critics and write to express yourself, and in your writing be yourself."
– Edward H. Cole
Campane, Number 76
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In Our Special, Volume 2, Number 3, Harlan and Nell Burbank answer questions written in to the editors about Spanish mispronunciation, a horoscope prediction gone wrong, and more.
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Les Boyer conveys the experience of becoming a senior citizen, and talks about his meeting with fellow amateur journalist Robert Orbach while traveling through Oklahoma City in The Echo, Number 93.
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"One look that symbolizes
All my dreams come true.
So fortunate am I
That I am loved by you."
Frances Stockman's poem Hush!!, among other writings, are in The Battersean, Number 15.
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John Stevenson recollects the chance occurrances that could have played out differently in his life differently had the dice simply been rolled differently in Jake Warner's story "Four Poker Dice" in the 78th Boxwooder.
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