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  • Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

    Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

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    “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” is part of the first amendment of the U. S. Constitution. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. Historians are unable to agree when the first debate over censorship started, but we all know it will never end. Postcards are part of that…

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Charles Dickens and Raphael Tuck, a match made in heaven? Well, perchance, no, but when the author wrote his novels, he had no idea that a man named Tuck would also make a fortune from the tales he invented. The same was true in reverse, when the Tuck company needed subjects for their postcards, they turned to an author who died forty years before.

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