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Old fashioned traits found in new fashioned girl
A profile of Judge J. M. Wood of Athens tracing his 1840 birth on a Gallia County farm, Civil War-era youth, rise to Common Pleas Court judge, and his wartime district work amid lawbreaking rings. The piece also discusses editor Margaret Sangster and postwar views on modern women in journalism and society.
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