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Richard J. Goodrich - The Peripatetic Historian

Dec 25, 2020

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The Flotsam Files, I

Pornographic postcards, Methodists on betting, and a crusading newspaper leads a crackdown on Seattle’s “automaniacs”

French postcard (detail). Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Obscene Postcards Vex the Postmaster

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