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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1893
Page
2
Executors outline the will of Job Rollton, directing the estate valued around 9 million to be divided into four equal shares for his children John B. Johnston, Emily Johnston Mah, Eva Johnston Coe, and John Johnston, with the late son John Herbert Johnston noted for his library. Court proceedings and attendance of heirs described, along with local notices and social events in Plainfield and nearby towns.
An unclear OCR fragment mentions a person and a bank on a corner with wheels and a store. It references a “Weather Observer” and a month, but the text is garbled and provides no clear event, date, or outcome to summarize.
Readable text records a fragmentary mention of persons subject to bilious colic attacks, describing a night incident near a wood Inet and potential exposure to illness. The garbled OCR yields no clear names or locations.
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