Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 23, 1919

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CELEBRATING POOR RICHARDS BIRTHDAY Government Has Pictures Ready for Every Member in the Family Benjamin Franklin Gave Us Gifts We Shall Never Cease Using Benjamin Franklin whose picture adorns the 1919 or Franklin issue of War Savings Stamps receives unique recognition from the country which gae him birth and which he in turn helped to make a nation Born in Boston on January 17 two hundred and thirteen years pto he began his career at the age of ten in bis fathers trade of tallow chandler and scan boiler Dissatisfied he later h one an apprentice in his brothers printing office and such was his character that he quickly rose to an influential position and subsequent ly became one of the most illustrious figures of all times He not only amassed wealth through wise spending sane saving and secure investment but saved time to give himself a complete edu cation developing his gifts to the ut most as a writer philosopher scien tist and statesman He founded the Philadelphia library the American Philosophical Society and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania he discov ered that lightning is a discharge of electricity he was Postmaster of Philadelphia and later on Deputy Postmaster

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maine state library. 1919-01-23. Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 23, 1919. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78000873/1919-01-23/ed-1/?sp=6

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