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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."

Overview

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
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

"'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:77679/

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    Lincoln Broadsides

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