Chain Letters and the Post Office

During the 1890s, chain letter fundraising proliferated for everything from a bike path in Michigan to a consumptive railroad telegraph. By 1899, this had all become enough of a problem that the US Postal Service had declared dime chain letters a violation of lottery laws and they started regulating shit. In 1998, New York world was preprinting chain letter forms to fundraise for a memorial for Spanish American war soldiers. Do not break the chain, which will result in honoring the memory of the men who sacrificed their lives,. It shited upon seeing what the world's proprietor had wrought his rivals at the New York Sun were blunt in their assessment. Pulitzer is insane.