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Uncommon Post-Dispatch business check, 8 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Pulitzer, payable to J. G. Kappner for $300.00, November 5, 1880. In fine condition, with a central vertical fold, cancellation cut to center, and a small area of paper loss to left edge. Kappner was the brother of Hungarian imigrant Col. Ignatz Kappner of the 3rd U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery settled in St. Louis, who was a partner of Joseph Pulitzer and co-editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after the civil war.