Excerpt from Aces and Kings: Cartoons From the Des Moines Register Neither is the collection complete owing to the necessity of conserving space and paper. But in the hope that they may in a small measure remind us of the stirring sensations through which the nation and we as neighors passed, this collection is respectfully presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.