Word: subr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth in Springfield, he sold subr scriptions for the weekly Sangamo Journal, covered the state legislature for the same paper when he was a state representative. He carried his habit of writing letters-to-the-editor right into the White, House. For about a year before his inauguration he secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...