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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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Hall of Fame C One of the new Georgia Representatives in Congress isSam Tribble. © Mr. Justice White, of the United States Supreme Court,spends an hour with a physical-culture man every day. C E. W. Townsend, who wrote Chimmie Fadden, waselected to Congress in the recent landslide as a Democratfrom New Jersey. G George S. Legare, of South Carolina, was reelected toCongress. Pronounce his name Legree or be preparedto be admonished. C It will take seven or eight volumes to hold the col-lected state papers, messages and speeches that ColonelRoosevelt made while he was President. C Peary, the Arctic explorer, who is a civil engineer inthe Navy, has been assigned to the Department of Jus-tice, where he will do all kinds of plain and fancy civilengineering. CJob Hedges, the New York orator and after-dinnerspeaker, has written a book on politics which begins:The life of the Nation is not in peril of immediatedissolution—a very comforting thought. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST December 17,19IO
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RECENTLY Postmaster-General Hitchcock wasreported as having said that during the past five years the small investors of this country have beenswindled out of one hundred million dollars by get-rich-quick men. The estimate is probably too low. A fort-night earlier the press announced that Mr. Hitchcockthought he could reduce the postal deficit somewhat ifCongress could be persuaded to impose a special tax onthe advertising pages of the popular magazines. Certainfavored classes of periodicals and the newspapers, includ-ing their weekly and monthly magazines, were to beexcepted from this recommendation. Though seeminglyunconnected, these two reports have an important bearingon each other, as will be seen a little later. This is written before the opening of Congress and with-out knowledge of the Postmaster-Generals real intentions,but we are strongly inclined to believe that the newspaperreports are wrong; for Mr. Hitchcock, better than anyone else, knows the intimate relation between th

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