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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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act is I kinderfiggered that if I done any hollerin it might start the snowagin, bein as I got such a loud voice. The Hall of Fame C Robert H. McCormick, the reaper man, used to be oneof the best four-in-hand whips in the country. C William Muldoon, the physical culture expert, used tobe a policeman in New York and was a champion WTestler. C Charles Ralston, of San Francisco, United States sub-treasurer in that city, worked underground as a miner fora good many years when he was a youngster. © General Harry Bingham, reelected to Congress fromPhiladelphia, continues as the Father of the House. Whenthe Sixty-second Congress opens he will begin his seven-teenth consecutive term of two years. C Huntington Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State, whoinvented the celebrated cooling apparatus for his office,consisting of an electric fan blowing over a tub of ice, wasforced to discard his invention. It had a deleterious effecton his five oclock tea. 24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST December 31,19IO
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FACTS are stubborn things, and, like many men,they are never so stubborn as when they are tryingto prove something that is wrong. No more thanfigures do they lie, but to a man of discriminating tastethey offer a fine opportunity for selection. These reflec-tions are prompted by that part of the Presidents messagein which he refers to the postal deficit. I agree, he says,that the question is one of fact; but I insist that if thefact is, as the experts of the Post-office Department show,that we are furnishing to the owners of magazines a serv-ice worth millions more than they pay for it, then justicerequires that the rate should be increased. At this writing it remains to be seen just what specialfacts the Post-office Department will put forth in itsannual report; but, if these facts bear any likeness tothose it adduced last year, the question, we believe, isstill one of fact. If it is seriously urged that the advertis-ing in the popular magazines be taxed, then justicerequires the cons

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