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JOHN HANCOCK

The gentleman whose signature to the Declaration of Independence it is comfort to come back to and read, after you have got the blind-staggers trying to spell out the others.
- Letter from Mark Twain, San Francisco Alta California, July 25, 1869

Tom and Huck in John Hancock ad
Hancock signature
John Hancock advertisement from
Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 17, 1949
from the Dave Thomson collection

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