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Show The Country's First "War Loan" Advertisement . . . . .... ... 1 .mjMMMgM ..u.uAMiJW" rtWfe''W'" N-ADV-ERTISJENT Lmfttry May fyb. J55 : TOYlCE ' ft&hy givco hi sfiwho lave cmffa'"'" '" d Xe& m TO fin! Hc-rte froin W , wagons A MiJ &hm.ft mj3. e?reelt. BtBuend on V BEN FKANKI IN, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 1755, caused to be written what is termed the country's first war loan advertisement. Franklin warned his readers against inflationary prices lest they "hinder the King's Service." a lesson still good in the Mighty Seventh War Loan. The document was written In German as well as Kngllsh. Superimposed on the original are the words used by Franklin. This was a loan of mate- rials and not of dollars. |