1916 Everybody's origins uncovered-- thanks Jason!
I am more than pleased to report that I have located the source for the m101-4 cards with Everybody’s backs– it was a department store in El Paso, Texas. I also found the date of initial distribution–April 22, 1916. Here is an ad from the April 28, 1916 El Paso Herald:
Here's a card:
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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