Life — May 9, 1889 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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The joke took among the workmen, and passed currently, and ‘ Uncle Sam” himself being pres- ent, was occasionally rallied on the increasing ex- tent of his possessions. Soon the incident ap- peared in print, and the joke gained favor rapidly, till it penetrated and was recognized in every part of the country, and, says John Frost, the Boston historian, will no doubt continue so while the United States remains a nation. It is now firmly imbedded in the Mosaic of our language like ‘ Tippecanoe,” ‘ Log Cabin,” and other short but expressive phrases which refer to important events in the history of our Republic. Both “Tippecanoe” and ‘Log Cabin” have taken on renewed force and vitality since their adoption by Hon, HI. H. Warner, of Safe Cure fame, in the naming of two of his great standard remedies, the principal one known as Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla. 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