70 Year Magazine Archive

Pitney-Bowes Objects

by James Jackson Kilpatrick

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It all started, in one sense, a very long time ago. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were emerging from their hall in Philadelphia, their work at last complete, when a lady drew Mr. Franklin to one side.

“Well, doctor,” she asked, “what do we have—a republic or a monarchy?”

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