Herbert Hoover actually said...

I AM GLAD to learn that you and Mrs. Markham are celebrating your seventy-eighth birthday together today, and I hope that through many more years you may enjoy the happiness which you have so freely given to others.

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Message Congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Markham on Their 78th Birthday.

04/22/1930

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