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Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker, let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

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Kin Hubbard
Age: 62 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 1
Died: 1930
Died: December 26
Cartoonist
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Journalist
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Frank McKinney Hubbard
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