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JCH22
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JCH22
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JCH22
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What is it with the printer's s punch?
God bless all who believe in him. Do unto others what you expect to be done to you. Dubbed a "Committee Secret Agent" by @mr1931S on 7/23/24. Founding member of CU Anti-Troll League since 9/24/24.
"In a fright" would have a different connotation than simply "In fright".
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That's stupid. I wonder who came up with that. 🙄
God bless all who believe in him. Do unto others what you expect to be done to you. Dubbed a "Committee Secret Agent" by @mr1931S on 7/23/24. Founding member of CU Anti-Troll League since 9/24/24.
It’f quite difficult to read. There had to be a reason for it at one time, maybe it was quicker to write that way?
I have contemporary books and even a newspaper from that time and can opin that the use of the long S in that particular newspaper is unique to them. The long S was used for double s words like issue, pass, passenger etc and not for words like small (fmall) like in the example above. In other words the usage of the long S in the example above was more the exception rather than the rule.
That April 6th letter reads like the latter to me.
It may be the first chit posting (fhit?) about US coins to ever occur. I like it.
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