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RETURNS SHFCKSoliciting Committee Votes to Return. Schleer Brothers Money.’The Soliciting Committee for the Home Coming Celebration to be held? here October 7, held a me^in^this morning* and .unanimously -voted to return Schleer Brothers- cbntributibn to the fundi The- ^omimttee stated the -money iVasi returned, because it was hot given with a full and free spirit arid no.mOne^.was wanted, that hail to be:; coerc^^ donors.' .The^: eoffimittee also made a statement -denying^^ ver-'sioh of the cpntributibn affair, arid Itatdd:' thtt; ;the /iSldwiiig' languagewas;used'by the .elder; Sehl^r'(in..refusing - - • . ■^IferSrid that h^^eenind; gouged, andj'that during: the war forced him: tb . be gouged,... but tK^:copldn't - do it; now;-that' it had -tostop .^ihie^me,'; and he refused to be'Med anyjlbhgerv •'arms like r a! wind mill liepsaid:•*. “WhatBsislt;BTa:tltig,nCwere, they Mghting;. for,: X’! 1:ftp protect; Mbrg^^ someMih^eMpat^rJbwere-d§piih for;am;Xir igritt ?: / t m^ un; old soldier . this morning,: and he said ~hei Helped save the. ebunftry^ they didn’t have any;honie icoimng •; for him.- Maybe we’ll ‘ ..piit out a few flags^ pdrselyesl v:I; don’t know.”■ -• ' ■: v‘ -':rniiiiLMT?jij
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Jefferson City Democrat Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Mon, Sep 29, 1919
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