Poor Peggy (1 results)

A near complete run of this right wing newspaper edited by former newpaper columnist Peggy Poor from 1982-1991, first in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and later in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Poor described the newspaper as the "voice of the Restoration Movement" that sought to return America to a constitutional republic by opposing taxes (and the IRS), the Federal Reserve, usury, and big government. It became an important voice in the tax protest, sovereign citizen, posse comitatus, small farmer's movement during the 1980s and often veered into conspiracy theories about the New World Order, the Rothschilds, international bankers, etc. The paper followed in the tradition of Bob White's similarly themed newspaper (also published in Florida), Duck Book, and even shared an illustrator in Jim "Goot" Guttenberg. The origin of the newspaper's name appears to be from a 1966 column written by Poor in the Florida Times-Union in which she introduces Jo-Jo The Upright Ostrich to explain a new federal assistance program for college tuition (The Florida Times-Union, Thu, Jul 14, 1966, p. 22). Despite its decade-long run, there are no issues currently available in the trade and only four libraries hold any issue in WorldCat (Univ. of Kansas, Wisconsin Historical Society, Michigan State Univ., and the NYPL). Poor dissolved the paper in August 1991 due to health issues and we're offering 85 out of approximately 95 published issues. The first couple of volumes were published in newsletter format, but beginning with volume three it was published as a tabloid magazine newspaper. Most issues with Labadie Collection stamps to the front cover.