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Unknown Texan Mails His Cake and Eats it Too

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09993.074.07 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 22 July 1943 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

One newspaper clipping entitled, "Texan Mails His Cake and Eats it Too." Pertains to a soldier attempting to send a cake to a friend from North Africa.

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