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Local items note travels and community concerns
Brief notices include C E Walter leaving for Michigan and W J Pettit visiting relatives in Kin derhook. Reports mention Brown Leghorn eggs for sale, a niece’s illness in Reed City, and an insurance policy issue tied to a Chicago world’s fair outfit. The Michigan legislature backs death penalty for murder on direct testimony. A Presbyterian assembly clergyman cites youth piety decline over the missing disciplinary slip. Demorest’s pattern orders are highlighted. Railroad workers fear a land scheme at Ashley as a potential swindle and shop relocation risk.
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Presbyterian Assembly
Washington