The Rhode Island Almanac
printed by Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin’s brother James printed The Rhode Island Almanac in 1728, and Benjamin Franklin (under the nom de plume of Richard Saunders) began his Poor Richard’s almanacs, the most famous of American almanacs, in Philadelphia in 1732. Poor Richard’s, enlivened by Franklin’s shrewd wit and straightforward prose style, remained a…
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