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The article portrays William McKinley of Champaign as a popular House member known for farming wealth and a generous streak including funding friends. It recounts Gardner of Michigan visiting Panama hospitals and shares a humorous, revealing exchange with a wounded American, illustrating wartime labor dangers and political camaraderie.
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