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One Citizen Uses His Rights to Petition Congress
Henry Stoner of Wyoming has filed 81 petitions to Congress in six weeks, proposing bold ideas from air travel safety with gigantic parachutes to Alaska as the last of the old West. He also urged conferences in Cumberland or Martinsburg, mercator maps, and even a House songbook, while the nation debates whether to grant veterans free pencils and paper.
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Henry Stoner