Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

WRITTEN DURING NEGOTIATION OFTREATY OF GREENVILLE 103 c   HARRISON,WILLIAM HENRY. Autograph Document Signed, “Wm. H. Har- rison / a[ide] d[e] c[amp],” ordering food for the Shawnee: “The commissary will issue for the Shawanoes twenty six pounds of flour & beef.” 2 1 / 4 x8 inches; some scattered ink burn, remnants of prior mounting at upper corners verso, docketing verso, folds. Greenville [OH], 19 July 1795 [1,000/1,500] 104 c   HOOVER, HERBERT. Signature, on a copy of a typed press release “to all editions of morning papers, Monday, June 28, 1943,” concerning the introduction of a bill proposing the creation of a federal “Food Administrator” charged with helping to control the inflation of food prices. 1 page, 4to; horizontal folds. Np, nd [100/200] “. . . Inflation in food prices cannot be stopped unless we have a single, responsible head over the inseparable functions of food production, distribution, prices, rations, government purchases, imports and exports. . . . “. . .The continuation of this administrative chaos threatens the food to our cities, the food to our armies, the food to our Allies and the relief of post-war famine—in fact, the whole war effort.” 101 103