by Joe Mitchell Chapple, Lalia Mitchell, Augustus M. Toplady, Erskine, Ralph Rev., Moses Owen, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Akers Allen, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Margaret E. Sangster, Alice May Youse, Coates Kinney, Mark Twain, James A. Garfield, Strickland W. Gillilan, Arthur Macy, Edward Rowland Sill, Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor, R. W. Payne, James Whitcomb Riley, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Edwin Arnold, Burdette, Robert J., S. F. Smith, Margaret Holland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ellen M. H. Gates, Susan Coolidge, Sally McLean, Mary Butts, Thomas Jefferson
Poetry and prose contributed by people in response to a newspaper competition. The competition was held by National Magazine edited by Joe Mitchell Chapple.