{"id":7580,"date":"2021-10-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2021-10-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:00:00","slug":"cactus-centres-plutocrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/cactus-centres-plutocrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Centre&#8217;s Plutocrat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1913-10-19\/ed-1\/seq-31\/\"><em>The Sun, October 19, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Down here in Cactus Centre prosperity has come;<br>A stranger feller brought it\u2014he has made the hull town hum;<br>He dropped a thousand dollars on the stage a-comin\u2019 in;<br>Every time he missed a kyote the stage driver would win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spent at least ten thousand playin\u2019 poker and roulette.<br>There simply wasn\u2019t nothin\u2019 that\u2019d bluff him from a bet;<br>He bought a dozen ranches, and the store of Happy Hank;<br>He\u2019s started up a stockyards and a factory and bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s put a hundred thousand in a gilded liquor perch;<br>He lifted up the mortgage on the Cactus Centre church.<br>He\u2019s planned an office building where there used to be just tents,<br>And he\u2019s put a half a million in a bang-up residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is this wealthy stranger that is blowin\u2019 cash so free?<br>That there\u2019s the very question that has had us up a tree;<br>On a pennant winnin\u2019 ball team he heads the list of names,<br>And he\u2019s tryin\u2019 to spend the profits of this year\u2019s world series games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, October 19, 1913. Down here in Cactus Centre prosperity has come;A stranger feller brought it\u2014he has made the hull town hum;He dropped a thousand dollars on the stage a-comin\u2019 in;Every time he missed a kyote the stage driver would win. He spent at least ten thousand playin\u2019 poker and roulette.There simply wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}