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Show POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect the almanac hangs on a peg in living room or kitchen. There, already, al-ready, the 1949 almanac has begun to hide the 1948 and earlier editions ! The almanac is many things to many people It carries an anniversary-listing calendar, astronomical data, information on how to get rid of rats, raise healthy chicks, how to stay awake in church Poor Richard's anniversary, January Jan-uary 17, 1949, highlights the influence in-fluence of the almanac on American Ameri-can life. Poor Richard was 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, |