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Originally Posted by h2oya311
Do you think the set was issued entirely in 1912 or do you think there might be some that were issued in 1911 as well?
It seems obvious that some (at a minimum) were issued in 1912 given those team/player changes.
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Well, I found several of these same ads in July and August, 1912 newspapers from New York, and none from 1911. Note the language in the upper right corner and then compare to the envelope that housed the T332s (not mine):
 
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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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