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"I found, when grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, Give always good measure, save labor and use the Self measuring, Entreprise Faucet."

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Year:
1893
Genre:
advertisements
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Quotations
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Extent:
2 p.; 12.6 x 8.7 cm.

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Notes:
Advertisement for a tinned measuring faucet
Col. illus. of Lincoln pouring molasses from a barrel. The Forrestry Building below.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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"'I found, when grocer's boy,' Honest Abe said 'Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, Give always good measure, save labor and use the Self measuring, Entreprise Faucet.'" (1893). Lincoln Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:77678/

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    "I found, when grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, Give always good measure, save labor and use the Self measuring, Entreprise Faucet."
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  • Child thumbnail
    "I found, when grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, Give always good measure, save labor and use the Self measuring, Entreprise Faucet."
    • Type: Page-Image
    • Order: 2
    • View

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    Lincoln Broadsides

    Brown's Lincoln Broadsides collection comprises an assortment of printed materials intended for broad public distribution in a variety of formats. Within this digital collection you will find, for example: handbills (a single sheet of text intended for wide public distribution), …
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