Soldiers Cheer as Greece Marches to Frontier Front
Athens reports May 7 that Greek troops move toward the frontier with two battalions already on the way. The King's escort regiment prepares to depart as Greece vows to defend its territory. Turkish forces threaten Thessaly, with a Turkish advance via Larissa and Greek reserves pushed forward. Foreign fleets ordered to blockade Greek ports amid rising tensions.
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Athens
Thessaly
Larissa
Volo
Valestino
Turkey
Suda Bay
Salami
Poros
Russia
Greece
Tevfik Bey
Kalamata
Prevesa
Monuments Unveiled In Savannah At Davis Reunion Event
In Savannah on May 6 a centennial reunion of the Chatham Artillery and a reception for Jefferson Davis culminated with a monument unveiling in Central Square. Davis reviewed three thousand troops from the Exchange balcony as bands played Marching Through Georgia and Yankee Doodle, the latter heard south of Mason and Dixon for the first time in thirty years, eliciting cheers and laughter.
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Savannah
Jefferson Davis
Chatham Artillery
Mason and Dixon
Mr. Davis
Dubuque (Ia
Dixie
Georgia
Jeff Davis
Davis
Eauvier
Waterspout and storms devastate Kansas and Missouri towns
May storms bring tragedy and damage across Kansas and Missouri. In Emporia a waterspout along Jacob's Creek swept away a wagon killing Mrs Jacobs and a young child. B B Jacobs and remaining child survived. Near Florence a fierce hailstorm shattered fifty four windows aboard the California express and triggered heavy rain. Osage City reports the heaviest rain and hail in the region with stones piled inches deep and homes damaged.
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Emporia
Kas
Jacob’s Creek
B.B. Jacobs
Charles
Kawasas City
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Florence
Caliornia
Osage City
Kansas
Congressmen Kelley and Rice Call for Labor Reform
May 7 report from Washington cites Congressman Kelley of Pennsylvania blaming capitalists for labor troubles. He urges an eight hour workday and penalties for overstretched factory runs, plus excluding European laborers blamed for unrest. He rejects sympathy for anarchists and communists while urging tougher immigration limits. Congressman Rice of Massachusetts backs strong government action to quell violence tied to unrest in Chicago.
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Washington
Congressman Kelley
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Rice
Massachusetts
Europe
Switchmen Out Embar rasses Chicago Railroads Strike
In Chicago on May 6 switch tenders on Western Indiana at Forty-first Street and Grand Crossing quit, halting freight traffic on the Wabash Grand Trunk Chicago and Atlantic and Chicago and Eastern Illinois lines. About eighteen men at Forty-first Street, paid 45 per month for 12 hours, demanded 55. After wage refusal they struck, preventing engines from leaving round-houses or pulling cars. Passenger and mail trains moved. freights blocked.
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Chicago and Western Indiana
Wabash
Grand Trunk
Chicago and Atlantic
Chicago
Western Indiana Road
Forty-first Street
Grand Crossing
Death Penalty Hangs Over Anarchist Leaders
State's Attorney Grinnell reports ample evidence implicating Spies Fielden and Schwab as Desplaines Street riot leaders. The Chicago uprising destroyed property and maimed many, and the bar members polled believe the evidence could convict all three for murder and secure the death penalty.
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Chicago
CubcaGco
Grinnell
Fielden
Schwab
Liv
Chicago Cloak Makers Demand Higher Wages and Hours
About 3,000 cloak makers who work six months yearly at $3 a week demand eight hours daily and a 25 percent wage rise. Contractors, 700 strong and organized as Knights of Labor Assembly No. 5129, back the plan if wholesalers raise prices. A committee will push the issue with leading houses.
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Hicago
Assembly
Knights of Labor
Fright handlers strike ends after wage accord
Cincinnati May 6 The fright handlers strike ends as workers accept railroad offers. Truckmen receive 1.35 dollars per day and locaters and carmen 1.45 dollars per day with fifteen cents hourly overtime. Sunday work paid as overtime and no wage deductions for strike time. The concessions are praised as generous.
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Cincinnati
Carmen
Remains of St. Paul Millionaire cremated in Pittsburgh
The body of Thomas J. Barnay, a wealthy St. Paul resident, arrived in Pittsburgh and was placed in Sampson's natural gas crematory. After two hours the gas was turned off, the receptacle removed, and eight pounds of ashes were placed in an urn and sent back with a relative to Minnesota.
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St. Paul
Incendiary Plot Derailed by City Police
Bohemian Anarchists in the southwestern city section formed a covert plan to start fires in lumber districts. A police informant revealed the plot which included intends to cut fire department hoses and disable engines. Authorities will deploy an extra fire tug and intensified river patrols to counter the threat.
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CuicaGo
Socialistic circulars flood Cleveland storefronts
Excitement grips Cleveland Ohio as last night a Chicago Socialistic circular urging workers to arms was found pasted on shop doors and office buildings. No demonstrations reported, and the distributor remains unknown.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Secretary Lamar Grants Robertson Pension After Discharge
Secretary Lamar reversed the prior ruling and ordered Samuel W. Robertson of Seneca Kansas placed on the pension rolls at 72 dollars monthly plus a lump sum of 10,760 dollars covering back pay to the date of final discharge. The decision affirms Secretary Telfer’s February 23, 1885 action. The disability cited is total blindness alleged to have existed before enlistment.
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Washingcton
Lamar
Samuel W. Robertson
Seneca
Kas
Commissioner of Pensions
Telfer
A Week's Failures Across The United States And Canada
The past seven days saw 167 business failures in the United States and 25 in Canada, totaling 192, down from 207 the prior week and 194 the week before that. The report notes changes in overall business conditions across North America.
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New York
United States
Canada
Double death rumor shocks community in Woerner case
May 7 report from Sr. Pav Mixy notes a community scare over alleged double self inflicted deaths. Victims named Charles Woerner and a family domestic. Mrs Woerner accuses her husband of inappropriate intimacy, prompting the startling claim.
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Sr. Pav
Mixy
Charles Woerner
Iowa Greenbackers Nominate State Officers
The Greenback State Convention nominated J. O Sauks of Dallas for Secretary of State L. F. Ellsworth of Mahaska for Treasurer J. W. Myers of Lynn for Auditor and J. W. Brown of Cass for Attorney General The platform denounces fusion with the Democracy as treachery and calls for reorganization, vigorous law enforcement, and unlimited coinage of silver.
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Cepar Raptos
Greenback
J. O Sauks
Dallas
L. F. Ellsworth
Mahaska
J. W. Myers
Lynn
J. W. Brown
Cass
Greenback Party
Horrible Death From Buffalo Gnats Reported in Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee on May 10 reports say buffalo gnats have killed stock in the Lower Mississippi Valley and a colored tenant, Bill Sneiss, was found dead after being stung and smothered by swarms. He wandered from the L Anguille swamp and collapsed, his body described as filled with gnats and eyes swarmed. This is cited as the second known human death from gnats, with a similar fatality noted near Haynes Station in 1884.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Bill Sneiss
Hadden
Pienatios
Crittenden County
Ark
McDaniel Place
Sneiss
L’anguille
Haynes’ Station
St. Francis County
Arkansas
Strange Light Overboard of Trade Tower Causes Bird Shower
In Craiano on May 10 a freak storm sparked a flocking spectacle as thousands of dead birds clogged sidewalks and the Board of Trade Tower Light. Electric lamps contained many birds, including unknown species, suggesting migratory flocks were drawn to the glow and died upon contact. Cleanup follows.
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Craiano
Board of Trade Tower
Board of Trade
Greenwood KY unrest as miners threaten convicts
Lovisville report says state troops guard Greenwood mines after eight owner houses burned by arsonists in a week and a late blaze destroyed a grocery and dwelling. Free miners blamed. troops kept peace for months while convicts face possible summary action amid rising fury.
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Lovuisville
Courier-Journal
Greenwood
Wmwis
Chinese immigration petition from Knights of Labor California
Representative Morrow received a monster petition from the Knights of Labor of California. It exceeds two thousand feet in length and bears the names of more than fifty thousand people from every state, county, and municipality. The petition asks Congress to act through legislation or treaty change to forever prohibit Chinese immigration to the United States.
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Washington
Morrow
Knights of Labor of
California
Knight of Labor of
Congress
China
United States
Thunder Storm Fatality Hits Four Men by Porch
Burlington Iowa May 10 A severe thunder storm struck last evening bringing torrential rain and hurricane winds. Four young men sat under a porch when lightning struck the buildings. One man was instantly killed and another seriously injured. Storm caused damage to buildings and crops outside the city.
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Burlington
Bread famine hits Pittsburgh bakers on strike
A bread famine exists in Pittsburgh as 120 of 160 bakeries are closed. About 300 bakers are on strike. The nine or so operating shops mainly small, serving regular customers only. Demands include twelve hour and all day work.
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Pittsburgh
Supreme Court Dismisses Snow Polygamy Cases
The Supreme Court has dismissed the three Snow polygamy cases for want of jurisdiction and recalled the mandate in the polygamy case, set aside the former judgment, and dismissed it for want of jurisdiction.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Agnes Carroll Betrothed to Count Antony Hussenstamm
Vienna reports Agnes Carroll, stepdaughter of General Lee, has been betrothed to Count Antony Hussenstamm on May 10. The arrangement links a prominent American military family to European aristocracy, signaling a union across transatlantic lines.
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Vienna
Agnes Carroll
Lee
Antony Hussenstamm
Returning to Work at Chicago Curıaco May 10
A large number of striking workmen resumed duties this morning in Chicago after an unresolved stoppage at Curia co. The workforce in the area appears to be returning in significant numbers, signaling a possible easing of labor tensions.
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Chicago
Curiaco
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Ohio National Guard
New York
Victims of Riot Death Toll Rises in Curacao
Two more police officers, Flavin and Shehan, die from injuries in Curacao after last Tuesday's riot. Anarchists who looted a Rosenfield drug store and consumed carbolic acid faced immediate, fatal consequences as more rioters succumbed, with hospitals reporting several deaths and others gravely ill.
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Curiaco
Flavin
Shehan
Charity
Rosenfield
Center Avenue
Eighteenth Street
General Assembly Called by Grand Master Powderly
General Master Workman Powderly has called a special General Assembly meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday May 25 to address rising membership and inadequate laws on boycotts and strikes, signaling a need to clarify authority and ease tensions with trade societies.
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General Executive Board
Order
Knights of Labor
Destructive Honolulu Fire Destroys Chinese Quarter
Advices from Honolulu via the Alameda report a April 18 blaze in the Chinese quarter starting in a coal house. Firemen blew up buildings to halt spread as eight square blocks covering sixty acres burned, leaving about eight thousand people homeless. Loss estimated at 1.5 million dollars with 230 thousand in insured. Two lives lost, a native woman and a unidentified person. The King visited the scene and aided with his own hands.
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Alameda
Honolulu
Fatal Fall of a New Iron Bridge at Lyonsdale
Utica New York May 9. The new iron bridge under construction at Lyonsdale Lewis County collapsed into Moose river twenty feet below, seven workers fell with it. Two escaped by leaping onto a pier. W A Wilcox of Port Leyden fatally injured leaping to an abutment. others swam ashore despite severe injuries. The accident followed a temporary trestle giving way.
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Utica
N. Y
Lyonsdale
Lewis County
Moose River
W. A. Wilcox
Port Leyden
Ohio Senate Adopts Resolutions and Administers Oath
In Columbus on May 9 the Republican Investigating Committee report and resolutions were removed from the table, adopted, and the oath of office was given to the Hamilton County Republican Senators before the Senate continued with its regular business.
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Columbus, O
Ohio Senate
Hamilton County
Senate
Loaded Coal Barges Sunk on Monongahela River
A sudden thirteen foot rise in the Monongahela River swept Marmet's loaded coal fleet away, taking O'Neil & Co.'s twenty three barges with most lost. Keeling & Co. lost three, W. H. Brown Sons and Sneathen & Co. one each, totaling thirty one derelict coal barges.
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Pitts Bourgh
Monongahela
Marmet
O'Neil & Co
Keeling & Co
W. H. Brown Sons and Sneathen & Co
Cuban exile in Hawthorne shootings shocks Paterson
Paterson reports Periko Fernandez, a wealthy Cuban of Hawthorne, shot in the right breast last night around midnight by his wife Belle. She then killed herself with the pistol at her temple. No cause is known for the deed.
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Paterson
N. J
Periko Fernandez
Hawthorne
Belle
Mortal tragedy and self inflicted death report from Knoxville
In Knoxville on May 6 Mrs Jane Fairbanks of Roane County wife of a miner died by taking Rough on Rats. A ten year old son of Riley Mills shot himself near Rogersville after his father refused him a drink of liquor.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jane Fairbanks
Roane County
Riley Mills
Rogersville
Geologist Killed In Coal Mine Accident
Geologist John Pass of Tucker County was killed during a geological excursion in Thomas mines when his head was crushed between a loaded coal-car and a post. He had married only a few weeks before the tragedy.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John Pass
Tucker County
Thomas
Long Senate House session reports May 4 10 1888
The May 4 10 1888 congressional record summarizes Senate and House actions including passage of an post office appropriation bill with subsidy clause, investigations into a Payne report interpolation, and various resolutions. It covers resignations, elections disputes, military affairs bills, and upcoming special orders through May 10.
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Washington
Senate
Emmet Tompkins
Ohio Legislative Committee
Payne
Committee On Privileges and
House
Pulitzer
Secretary of State
New York
Bureau of Aricial Industry
Secretary of the Navy
Kimball
Panama Canal
Campbell Vs. Weaver
Jaen
Committee On Elections
J. B. Weaver
United States
Logan
South
Committee On Education
Blair
Camden
Yeas
James C. Wintersmith
Speers
Ways and Means Committee
Internal Revenue
Committee On Military Affairs
Veterans’ Bounty
Messrs
Laclede
Bragg
Hepburn
Goff
Hewitt
Reagan
Breckinridge
Navy
Marine Corps
Hertixd
Miller
Committee On Education and Labor
J. Logan
Hovsk
Department of Agriculture and Labor
Mississippi
Missouri River
Secretary of War
Arsenal
Philadelphia
F. W. Haldeman
Kinambosta
Hoost
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company
Indian Territory
Military Academy
Army
Frye
Canada
Davis
van Wyck
Union Pacific Railroad
Walthall
Gorman
Stanford
Sewell
Hovss
District of Columbia
Sir Charles DiLkke Denies Immoral Charge At Chelsea Speech
Sir Charles DiLkke pressed by immoral conduct charges he calls cruel and baseless and says they caused him and his wife sleepless nights. He sought the Queen's Proctor to intervene and will deny the unfounded charges on oath. The Russian War Minister travels to Livadia to confer with the Czar. Vienna workers meeting of three thousand demands Liberal Deputies oppose the Socialist law.
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Charles Dilkke
Chelsea
Livadia
Vienna
Tragic Farmhouse Fire Claims Three Children
Frank Benoit's farm house twelve miles west of Jackson burned with nothing saved. Inside were three children aged one, three, and five years, all perishing in the flames. The mother, away on the farm, was restrained by a neighbor from entering the blaze.
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Jackson, Macg
Frank Benoit
Jackson
Exposition Committee Meets President on Centennial Plans
The Exposition Executive Committee met the President at Was nixcox on May 6 to discuss a Washington celebration for Columbus land ing in 1492 and the U S centennial of the United States government formation. The President showed strong interest and favor, promising immediate consideration of official steps.
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Wasnixcox
Washington
United States
Walnuts from Pine Rumored Method Emerges
The Boston Globe reports a method to imitate black walnuts using pine. A walnut peel extract mixed with water coats wood. as it dries a bichromate or potash solution is applied, producing a convincing walnut appearance that can fool close inspection.
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Boston Globe
The St. Louis Anarchists Endorse Chicago Action
In St Louis on May 9 the anarchists met and adopted resolutions endorsing their Chicago brothers and denouncing the Chicago police.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Choice Selections On Faith Prayers And Treatments
The London Lancet and European journals discuss Buisson’s hydrophobia treatment as more effective than Pasteur's, claiming cures even after hydrophobia symptoms have begun. Prof Buisson’s method is presented as superior to Pasteur in several sources.
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Luther
Henry
London Lancet
Buisson
Pasteur
Labor Trouble Hearings Charge Texan Firms Losses
Galveston hearing before the Congressional sub committee features R B Hawley a grocery and grain jobber describing a business range of 1 to 3 million dollars yearly with credits cut and 30 to 40 percent losses due to labor unrest. S L Finley, Knights of Labor former official, says strikes were planned but discouraged. P W Farrell details a mandate for Texas Pacific clerks. W P Burk notes demoralizing strike impact on the Gould system and argues for Texas manufacturing.
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Galveston
Tex
Congressional
R. B. Hawley
Organization of Labor
S. L. Finley
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
Knights of Labor
Knights
Texas
P.W. Farrell
Texas Pacific Railroad
Fort Worth
W. P. Burk
Labor Advocate
South
Marshall
Chicago
Des Plaines Street
J. M. Hart
No.1
West Lake Street
Albert Florus
Spies, Fielden, Schwab & Co
Holyoke
Mass
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
George Bartels
Loranz
Franz Smith
Fred Benteen
Justice
Charles J. Franks
Smidt
Franks
Ohio Senate delays over subcommittee reports in May session
May 4 to 7 coverage details the Ohio Senates debate over two non partisan sub committee reports with Democrats contending a substitute report was offered. House bills include records restoration boards abolition and mortgage recording changes while other local measures pass.
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Columnus
Senate
van Cleaf
Messrs
Dodd
Lawrence
Cable
Crites
Mehaffey
Rannells
Pavey
Fassett
Codding
State Board of Claims
Columbus
General Revenue Fund
House
Walbonding Canal
Board of Public Works
United States
Penitentiary Act
Ohio
Game and Fish Commission
Railway managers plant catalpa and alcan trees in Kansas square mile
Kan sas railway officials warn of wood shortages for ties and plant a square mile with catalpa and alcan trees as a protective measure. The road president also plants the same area as a private speculation, reflecting stakes in timber supply.
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Kansas
Chicago
Mali
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Lehi
Genuine
Brown Chemical Co
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M. Ehret, JR
Public Landing
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Lebanon
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Iaifra
B.C. Strehl & Co
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Philadel’a4
Ladies’ Home Journal
Practical Housekeeper
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James Moore
Louisville
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Langa
Soucune
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Onits
LePace
Sample Rent CO
Cloucester, Mass
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Farmer's Paradise
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Evin Harker
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Alois Wending
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Jacob S.hwartz
A. R. WeEromMann
Fort Recovery
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Canton
George Strenfus
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Ft. Wayne
Strenfus
Massillion
Major Keller
South Toledo
J. M. Walcott
Charles Harris
Findlay
Wm. H. Bordner
Keystone
Akron
Welker
Ada
Andrew
George Gallogly
Gordon Apperson
Newark
William Gray
Zach Owens
Joe Wilson
Ohio Penitentiary
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Circleville
Susan Walker
Orange Township
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Warren
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Tiffin Daily Advertiser
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