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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852816)	4/28/2015 12:34:22 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

So you're holding up the Roman era and the 1700's and 1800's as something we should shoot for? Rome had "paved" roads. Yes, they ran a brutal slaveocracy. B Franklin printer wasn't a corp. The insurance company he and other businessmen started was a corporation, however. In the printing business he was a sole proprieter, then a franchiser: founders.archives.gov Beginning with his co-partnership agreement with Thomas Whitmarsh on September 13, 1731 “for the carrying on of the Business of Printing in Charlestown in South Carolina,” Franklin grew an extensive network of franchises in the United States and internationally. The printing shop that Franklin formed with Whitmarsh published the South-Carolina Gazette and also many of Franklin’s writings, including his Poor Richard’s Almanac. The agreement required that during its six-year term that “the Business of printing and disposing of the Work printed shall be under the Care, Management, and Direction of the said Thomas Whitmarsh and the working Part performed by him or at his Expense. Further Whitmarsh was obligated to purchase his printing material from Franklin - “Thomas Whitmarsh shall not during the Term of the Co-partnership aforesaid work with any other printing Materials than those belonging to the said Benjamin Franklin.” Whitmarsh even agreed to an in-term covenant that he would not be in any other business but printing – “…nor follow any other Business but Printing during the said Term, occasional Merchandize excepted.” The agreement did not impose any of these restrictions on Franklin, which was essential as Franklin enter into similar arrangements elsewhere. Following Whitmarsh, Franklin formed similar co-partnerships with other local printers including Louis Timothé (1733), Elizabeth Timothy (Timothee), Louis’ widow (1739), Peter Timothy (Timothee), Elizabeth’s son (1747), James Parker (New York), Thomas Smith (Antigua), Benjamin Mecom (Antigua), James Franklin Jr. and Ann Franklin (Newport, RI), William Dunlap (Lancaster, PA), Samuel Holland (Lancaster, PA), John Henry Miller (Lancaster, PA) and Thomas Fleet (Boston, MA) who published The Boston Evening Post. Franklin established additional franchises in Dominica, Kingston Jamaica, North Carolina and Georgia. There are also some records that Franklin entered into similar arrangements in Canada and Britain in later years. Interesting that Benjamin Franklin’s third franchisee was a woman, the widow of his second franchisee. ........... franchises.about.com If he had faced today's legal and tax environment, he would certainly have operated as a corporation. Many publishing companies go back to the 1800's and earlier: Thomas Nelson to the 1790's; John Wiley and Sons to the 1800's, MacMillan Publishers to the 1840's, the NYT Company and Shaw Media to 1851, Rand McNally 1856, McClatchy 1857 .... Wild Bill Hickok didn't have to weave his non-corporate clothes. Mark Twain neither made his own candles, nor purchased corporate ones. You're probably wrong on those points. Businesses began incorporating in the 1800's. One of the earliest industrial corporations that is still existing was E I du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1801: The act of association was signed on 21 April 1801, and the company was christened E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company since it was its namesake's ingenuity that had created this venture. [4] His gunpowder company was capitalized at $36,000 with 18 shares at $2,000 each. Even the fur trade with the Indians and mountain men was conducted mostly the American Fur Company, chartered in New York in 1808 by John Jacob Astor. Hartford Insurance was founded in 1810 and is still a large corporation. Remington & Sons, now Remington Arms was founded in 1816. The Colt's Hickock carried were made by a company founded in 1855. Have you ever seen general stores in Westerns? You can do an awful lot without corps. Yes, and they mostly stocked stuff made by corporations.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852816)	4/28/2015 12:40:06 PM
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Extra Crispy? California Solar Farm Killed 3,500 Birds. The only way you get these is blackened. Cajun seasoning anyone?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852816)	4/28/2015 12:40:36 PM
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RAW VIDEO Democrat Senator: “Slavery Was Right For The Time” [ From Oregon ] http://conservativehideout.com/2015/04/27/raw-video-democrat-senator-slavery-was-right-for-the-time/

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852816)	4/28/2015 12:42:03 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Taro Respond to of 1575424

Hillary Furious As Thousands Send Cigars To Her Offices With The Message: "Don't Blow It"... Hillary Clinton is reportedly furious and abashed as several thousand cigars were recently delivered to her office in protest of her announcement that she would run for President in 2016. Thanks to Send Clinton Cigars (http://sendclintoncigars.com), a service that allows you to anonymously purchase cigars and have them directly mailed to Clinton, tens of thousands of Americans are blatantly reminding her of her first stay in the White House. For those with short term memory loss, this was reportedly the sexual act of President Bill Clinton who used a cigar to pleasure White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Send Clinton Cigars site sports a non so subtle tagline of “Clinton / Lewinsky 2016 · Don’t Blow It!” beside a logo against smoking; cigars to be assumed. We're gonna miss her when she's gone.