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How kids helped buy a copy of Gettysburg Address
"How kids helped buy a copy of Gettysburg Address "By KERRY LESTER, Associated Press | November 16, 2013 | Updated: November 16, 2013 4:17pm
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/How...987572.php

This story tells how a group of school children in 1943 raised funds to help purchase one of Lincoln's five hand-written copies of the Gettysburg address. Good motivation for today's students and a lesson on inflation! $0.05 in 1943 had the same buying power as $0.68 in 2013.
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