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Local News Extract on Savings, Freight, and Age Milestones
The passage discusses Roosevelt's message to Congress promoting thrift and savings banks, opposing a postal freight business for city stores, and proposing local parcel posts to aid farmers and merchants. It also reports Callahan's tragic death on the C and N W tracks near Dakota City, with details of how he was crushed between a car and the freight platform. Additional items mention prophetic claims of world end, Pat Crowe’s religious turn, a $4,400 damages verdict for G A Locke’s estate, and a century-spanning outline of property and civic milestones from birth to age 45 and beyond.
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