. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . i JOHN RANDOLPH STIDMAX throats of three infants who were waitingto undergo the same ordeal. The story of my life is short and un-eventful. I was born in I^altimore. buthave spcMit the greater jxirt of my life atPvelay. All my life I have had, andstill have, an ambition to become awriter. My natural talent lies in theline of poetry and I have sold poems toMcCalls, Appletons and the RailroadMans Magazine, Christmas poems to theBaltimore Sun and stories to the Balti-more News. Five years ago I won thefirst {)rize in a song contest, conductedby Richard Ca


. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . i JOHN RANDOLPH STIDMAX throats of three infants who were waitingto undergo the same ordeal. The story of my life is short and un-eventful. I was born in I^altimore. buthave spcMit the greater jxirt of my life atPvelay. All my life I have had, andstill have, an ambition to become awriter. My natural talent lies in theline of poetry and I have sold poems toMcCalls, Appletons and the RailroadMans Magazine, Christmas poems to theBaltimore Sun and stories to the Balti-more News. Five years ago I won thefirst {)rize in a song contest, conductedby Richard Carle, the well known come-dian, in which there were fifteen hundredcontestants. Some years ago I receiveda communication from a musical com-poser of ^lilwaukee, who informed methat he had secured permission from theproprietor of Appletons Magazine to setto music a poem of mine entitled InterXos. This song is now being includedin the repertoire of such singers asCarolina White, ^Ladame Gadski andothers of note. I must confess thatpoetry is


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