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Show POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect Poor Richard"! anniversary. Jan- uar 17, 1949, highlights the Influence In-fluence of the almanac on American Ameri-can life. Poor Richard as the nom de plume of Benjamin Franklin, Frank-lin, whose Poor Richard Almanac began the popularity of this type of publication In hundreds of thousands of homes, rural households especially. the almanac hangs on a peg In living room or kitchen. There, already, al-ready, the 1949 almanac has begun to hide the 1W8 and earlier editions The almanac It many things to many people It carries an anniversary-listing calendar, astronomical data, Information on how to get rid of rats, raise healthy rhlrks. how to stay awake In church |