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Sultana survivor dies at 79 in Grand Rapids area
Grand Rapids reports Captain Truman M. Smith, a Sultana disaster survivor, died at 79. The Sultana carried 2,000 war prisoners when it exploded in the Mississippi in 1865. Other briefs include a fatal rifle accident in Coldwater and a Pontiac census underway with race divisions.
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