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The Bull’s Eye by General Manager and Editor Will Rogers for October 7, 1925: Another Bull Durham advertisement by Will Rogers, Ziegfeld Follies and screen star, and leading American humorist. More coming. Watch for them.

Improving on History: I just finished hearing a Politician, one of the Washington Boys, talk on Abraham Lincoln. The only thing I could picture in common between him and Lincoln was that they had both been in Washington. When a politician ain’t talking about himself he is talking about Lincoln. Lincoln has had more public men speak of his good qualities, and fewer copy any of them, than any man America ever produced. His famous address was only two hundred words long. No politician has ever been able to copy even his briefness. In fact that is the last one of his qualities that they would try to copy. Lincoln said more in those 200 words than has ever been said in the city of Washington in the last 10 years, and here is a quality that no historian or speaker has ever brought out before. At the completion of the Gettysburg speech, he wisely refused one of Grant’s cigars, and borrowed a sack of Bull Durham from an ex Southern private, rolled his own, got on his mule and went back to Washington. - Will Rogers. P.S. there will be another piece here two weeks from now. Look for it.

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