Miners in France Face Ailing Strike Prospects
Reports from France describe restless miners anxious to strike amid a general vote in favor while many are not ready to walk out. The federation aims for a broad stoppage but local districts push a staged action awaiting the chamber commission verdict. Military and police bolster coal fields as authorities prepare for possible disorder.
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Ris
France
Chamber of Jes
Nord
M. Cotte
Imne
Mit Pas de Callas
Commission Chamber of Deputies
Elgian
Rike
Pas de Calais Disiene
Farmers Ban Hunting on County Lands in Indiana
In imbus Indiana on November 22 a petition circulated by farmers in Bartholo county calls for a ban on hunting and trespassing on lands owned by farmers. The document already has nearly 100 signatures from prominent property holders and aims to exclude city sports from the area as farmers push to enforce the agreement countywide.
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Gane
Imbus
Ind
Igned
Farmers’ Unting Association
Bartholounty
Nty
Fragmented events and dueling challenge reported in Midwest notices
Disconnected items from Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan detail a man killed by a moving train in Indiana, a Fox river project proposal in Wisconsin, and editor Frank facing a duel challenge in Michigan. The snippets reference relatives funds, a lake to Fox river link, and voting rights questions amid political pressure.
Three Youths Locked Up After Attempted Lynching Threat
Ills Nov 22 three youths are jailed ten miles west of Elgin in the county jail after an attack on Emma Bart aged years. guards expect identification as a possible lynching attempt unfolds.
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Hls
Lake Michigan
Fox River
Elgin
Repre. Hopkins
Congress
Kenosha County
Wis
Lake Shore
Hob
Emma
Bart
Guarda
Trooper Hangs Self at Fort Riley Near City
In City Kansas on November 22 W PD of Troop D Fourteenth Cavalry stationed at Fort Riley was found dead by hanging with a towel. Police say the trooper H died by suicide after he killed Policemen White and Cooper Tuesday night.
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City
Kan
W. PD
Fort Riley
Here
Picket Violence Ends in Killing at Chicago Plant
In a clash at the Allis-Chalmers machine shop union and non union workers clash over a long strike. George Trapp is killed when Burkhauser shoots after being attacked with a gas pipe. Burkhauser, from Baltimore, was arrested at a doctor’s office where his head was being sewn.
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Chicago
Allis-Chalmers
Cty
Kohlsaat
Federal Court
George Trapp
Andrew Burkhauser
Baltimore
Trapp
Burkhauser
Stock train wreck near Walnut claims farmer life
A Chicago Burlington and Quincy stock train split near Walnut Iowa on Wednesday. The rear section collided with a freight engine, killing farmer John J. Reese of Erie Iowa and injuring nine others including J A Baker Harry Buck F P Carl Daniel Donovan F H Howson Benjamin Dr Hughes G M Hunter and A W Haley. Five cattle cars carried live cattle, most of which were killed.
Carrie Mears Becomes State's Largest Woman Landowner
In Michigan probate court the final account in the Albert Mears estate grants daughter Carrie E. Mears as sole heir. She inherits 7 348 acres 45 blocks and 232 lots across Mason Oceana and Muskegon counties including Ludington Pentwater Middlesex Whitehall and Years. The 21 year old resides in Chicago and is sole heir to nearly three times her Michigan holdings in Illinois.
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Muskegon
Mich
Albert Mears
Misa
Carrie E. Mears
Mason
Oceana
Ludington
Pentwater
Middlesex
Whitehall
Marriage license returned amid family conflict letter
County Clerk Martin sold a marriage license to a youth in Mon rice. The youth sent back the license with a note asking not to publish it, saying his father kicked out the daughter and he could not have her. He urged a prompt reply.
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Owosso
Mieh
Noy
Poe
Martin
Monrice
Lcense
Notorious South Dakota outlaw Jack Sully arrested in Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa November 22 Jack Sully the seven time murder accused outlaw and gang leader of Lyman county robbers and horse rustlers was arrested on Wednesday He tried to kill Pete Waugh who recovered cattle and Waugh with Sheriff Taylor ambushed him Sully and his lieutenant Black Bird are expected to break up the gang
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Sioux City
Jack Sully
South Dakota
Lyman County
Pete Waugh
Waugh
Taylor
Black Bird
Fire destroys barn and hack line in Jackson
Jackson Michigan November 22. The barn owned by T. C. Quick and used by A B E Jackson who operated a 10 cent hack line burned. Two hacks and about three tons of hay also burned. Two horses were cremated. The fire is believed incendiary.
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Jackson, Mich
T. C. Quick
A. BE. Jackson
Supposed To Be a Kansas Man Found Dead in Chicago Hotel
A man believed to be J. D. Robert of Brookville Kansas was found dead Wednesday in the Congress hotel Chicago. A bottle containing morphine was found on a table suggesting self inflicted death.
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Kansas
Chicago
J. D. Robert
Brookville
Kan
Congress Hotel
Vienna assassination denial from Belgrade reported
The Vienna story of the assassination of Queen Draga of Servia is officially denied from Belgrade. Other items note Bismarck volumes, a Franco-German anti anarchist note, New York savings banks rate cut plans, Wilson's Chicago addresses, Buffington retires, New York City election cost, a Lincoln Park monument in Chicago, the Tribune sailing from Kingston, a Findlay Ohio reward, Marshall Field clerk recovers $4000, a Paris barber's electric shaver burns, Whitney's Detroit fire damage, and an unknown man in a Pittsburg blast furnace incident.
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Vienna
Draga of
Servia
Belgrade
Bismarck
Germany
Russia
New York City
Wilson
Chicago
Adelbert R. Buffington
Bureau of Ordnance
New York
Lincoln Park
David Kenneson
Illinois
Tribune
Kingston
Jamaica
Colon
Findlay
Marshall Field & Co
Whitney
Detroit
Pittsburg
Lecture course schedule and ticket sales update
The notice lists remaining lectures by H V Richards on Friday November 22, Frederick Truman on Friday December 13, Fredrick Musical Co on Friday January 3, and Passion Play on Friday January 24. Season or single tickets for the C. H. Wilson course are available at Wilson Beamer Hardware store.
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H V Richards
Frederick Truman
Fredrick Musical Co
Passion Play
C. H. Wilson
Wilson- Beamer Hardware
Reciprocity Convention Ends Amid Let Well Alone Trend
Theodore Search delivered an engrossed copy of reciprocity resolutions to President Roosevelt after the Washington convention adjourned sine die. The document backs reciprocity favorable to manufacturing yet protective of home industries and calls for a commission to study trade impacts. Believers in “let well enough alone” celebrate while protectionists influence the outcome.
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Washington
Theodore
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Poisoning Case Set for Morgan County Trial
In Jacksonville Florida Morgan County Circuit Court will hear next Monday the cases of William Webb Ferguson alias William Winn and Mamie Barnes charged in Monticello with murdering Dr. Charles Barnes at the Central Hospital for the Insane by candy poisoned with strychnine. Ferguson pleaded not guilty. motion to quash overruled. Mrs Barnes case may come first. jury has not indicted Mrs McWilliams.
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Jacksonville
Ars
Navy
William Webb Ferguson
William Winn
Quincy
Charles Barnes
Monticello
Central Hospital For
Mamie Barnes
Barnes
Morgan County Circuit Court
Ferguson
Thompson
Governor Savage pledges to block rail combine in Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Nov 22 Governor Savage said Nebraska would join Minnesota and Washington in strictly enforcing anti combination laws to oppose any railway consolidation between Union Pacific and Burlington that would lessen competition.
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Railway Combine
Lincoln
Neb
Union Pacific
Burlington
Savage
Nebraska
Minnesota
Washington
Elwood Woman Sues For Divorce Over Prayers At Table
Mrs Geo Cunningham of Elwood files for divorce in Anderson Indiana alleging her husband objected to her asking blessing at meals. She says he told her to cut it short and claimed dinner is better than a prayer, noting the Lord knows they are at the table.
Four Trainmen Killed in Alabama Freight Collision
Birmingham Alabama, Nov. 22 report1 Four trainmen died and seven were injured in a head on collision yesterday between two Louisville and Nashville freight trains at Hughes Siding seven miles from the city. The dead are engineer T A Cogbill conductor J C Rattenberry brakeman William Bell and fireman Anderson Irving.
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Birmingham
Ala
Louisville
Nashville
Hughes’ Siding
T. A. Cogbill
J. C. Rattenberry
William Bell
Anderson Irving
Springfield merchants bid for rolling mill opening
At a Ridgely conference on Wednesday Springfield Merchants' association and city council and Ridgely taxpayers raised 5000 of 15000 needed to secure the opening of the rolling mills by the Republic Iron and Steel company.
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Springfield, His
Ridgely
Springfield Merchants’ Association
Republic Lron and Steel Company
Cattle Deal Nets 200000 From Amarillo Sellers
A Kansas City deal closes with Janes Bros. & Brown of Amarillo selling 11 000 Hereford and Durham cattle to J. H. Nations a KC Live Stock Exchange member and John T. McElroy EB Newman of El Paso for 200 000 dollars.
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Kansas City
Janes Bros. & Brown
Amarillo
Tex
J. H. Nations
Gasoline Explosion Wrecks Printer's Office in Bloomington
A gasoline explosion wrecked the Lloyd & Miller printing office in Bloomington on Wednesday night, seriously injuring the proprietors and two employees. Plate glass shattered up to 100 feet, with debris showering passersby and adjoining buildings sustaining damage.
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Bloomington
Ils
Lloyd & Miller
Martinsville Mother Falls Before Advancing Engine
Martinsville Indiana November 22 Mrs Dill attempted to cross a railway track with an infant in her arms as an engine approached. Her foot caught and she fell. The engineer stopped within two feet of her on a reverse of the engine.
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Martinsville
Ind
Gospel hymn writer John M. Burke dies in Wheaton Ill
John M. Burke, longtime gospel hymn writer and singer associated with D. L. Moody D. W. Whittle and Thomas McNeill, has died at his Wheaton home. Burke composed the popular hymn Not I but Christ.
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Chicago
John M. Burke
D. L. Moody
D. W. Whittle
Thomas McNeill
Wheaton, Tils
Burke
Christ
Duncansville Post Office Robbed In Dynamite Breakin
The Duncansville post office was blown open with dynamite and robbed of cash stamps and money orders. Loss estimated at about $1,000 with robbers fleeing the scene in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania Postoffice Robbe
Hollidaysburg
Duncansville
Thanksgiving Excursion Chicago to St Louis Fare Five Dollars
The Wabash offers a Thanksgiving round trip from Chicago to St Louis for 5 dollars good on all trains on No 27. Three daily trains run. Send a postal card to 97 Adams Street Chicago for details.
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Wabash
Chicago
St Louis
Adams Street
Rebellion, Panama unrest quiet amid isthmus wait
Reports from Caracas and Washington say Matos led rebellion crushed and leaders jailed. Liberals appoint local officials on the isthmus while Panama traffic continues. Officials await the outcome of the Chorrera expedition to decide control between conservatives and Liberals.
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Panama
Washington
Gudger
Perry
Lowa
State
Navy Department
Long
Machias
French Editors Debate U S Marines Landing at Colon
French papers differ on the November 22 landing of United States Marines at Colon. Some cite alleged protests from the French consul, others defend U S treaty rights. Journals question Roosevelt policy while Paris press warns of motives regarding the isthmus.
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Colon
Paris
United States
Hay
the Patrie
New York
France
Journal Des Debats
Machias
Panama
Roosevelt
Liberte
Washington
Civil Service Talks Delay Rural Delivery Carriers
Washington reports a second conference between General Superintendent Machen and Civil Service Commissioner Foulke over bringing about 6 200 rural free delivery carriers into the civil service. Likely no positions will enter the civil service before year end and no formal examinations are planned for the carriers.
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Washington
Machen
Free Delivery Postal Service
Civil Service
Foulke
Illinois men jailed in Minnesota game law bust at Hackensack
Brainerd Minn November 22 authorities seized nearly 1000 dollars worth of property and arrested four Illinois residents for hunting without a license at Hackensack T C Sager G W Johnson ID W Burbank Genoa Ill and BE Well Chicago were named among the arrestees.
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Brainerd
Minn
Illinois
Minnesota
Hackensack
T. C. Sager
G. W. Johnson
ID. W. Burbank
Genoa, Lls
BE. Well
Chicago
Portland to Host Next W. C. T. U. Convention
Fort Worth reports that after the national W. C. T. U. convention closed on Wednesday night the executive board chose Portland, Maine, as the site for the next gathering. Delegates depart for home today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Fort Worth
Tex
W. C. T. U. National Convention
Wreck Destroys Santa Fe Mail Near Needles
In a Wednesday wreck near Needles California the entire mail on both trains burned. At least 30 000 letters mailed in Los Angeles for the east were destroyed. No registered mail was lost as none was on the limited trains.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Fe
Needles
Civil War Vet and Lawyer Killed by Electric Car
Captain Anthony Neustadt, a Civil War veteran, newspaper man, and lawyer from Siwardsville Illinois, was killed when struck by an electric car at Cocklinsville on Wednesday November 22.
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Siwardsville
Ills
Anthony Neustadt
Coklinsville
Wabash Adds Daily Sleeper Chicago to Hot Springs
Beginning November 17 the Wabash line will run a daily sleeper from Chicago to Hot Springs Arkansas without change. The train departs Chicago at 11 03 a m and arrives Hot Springs at 8 00 o clock the next morning. Tickets available at 97 Adams street Chicago.
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Wabash Road
Chicago
Hot Springs
Ark
Adams St
Deserted Pine Territory Homestead Plan in Upper Michigan
William D. Bagley proposes a pine land homestead scheme to be showcased at the State Association of Farmers' Clubs. The plan centers a three mile square tract with a central community, branches, artesian well, seed aid, and five years of tax relief, with eventual deed to settlers and continued tax income to the state.
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Lansing
Mich
William D. Bagley
Old Mission
Bagley
Paras
Built the First Locomotive Death of Captain John Lawson
Captain John Lawson, born in Manchester August 8 1801, died in St Louis November 22. Apprenticed to George Stephenson he helped build the first locomotive engine. Lawson, a veteran railway engineer in the east and south, later entered steamboats and made a Cumberland river fortune. He will be buried in Paducah Kentucky where he lived fifty six years.
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St. Louis
John Lawson
England
United States
Captain Lawson
Manchester
George Stephenson
Lawson
Paducah
Glass manufacturers and jobbers reach price agreement
The two day meeting of the Glass manufacturers association and the National Jobbers association at the Auditorium Annex ended with a final agreement on price and quantity. Glass prices are to be lower.
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Chicago
Glass Manufacturers’ Association
National Jobbers’ Association
Auditorium Annex
Dolan to defend UP in damage suit over injuries
Patrick Tulley has named John Dolan an engineer on the Union Pacific as codefendant in a personal injury damage suit. The outcome may affect later cases by reducing settlement of similar actions in federal courts. In Ogden prison four inmates sawed a hole in a cell wall and escaped.
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Omaha
Neb
Patrick Tulley
John Dolan
Union Pacific
Ogden
Utah
T. Hu ‘Turner
James Sutherland
James Hope
George Wells
Quail Charges Led Against Rock Island Railway
In Omaha county attorney files district court action via Game Warden Counsman against Rock Island Railway for illegal possession of quail served in dining cars on trains in Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Navy
Counsman
Rock Island Railway Company
Market Hogs Cattle and Grains Across Cities Report
Chicago markets show hog receipts about 45,000 with pigs 4.00 to 5.05, light to heavy packing 5.10 to 6.10. cattle receipts near 9,000 with fancy steers up to 6.90, common to medium around 4.70. cattle prices include western steers 4.66 to 6.50 and veal calves 4.50 to 6.40. St. Louis grain notes weak wheat and lower corn, while Milwaukee reports firm wheat and higher rye levels.
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Chicago
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
East Buffalo
N. Y
Canada Lambs
St. Louis Grain
St. Louis
Milwaukee Grain
Milwaukee
Board of Trade
Bus Line Call Up Orders At Hotel Allen
Partial OCR item notes a call to action for a bus line to contact Hotel Allen at phone number 1. Wrank Rogers is mentioned as the contact point for prompt attention to orders. The fragment suggests a railway or transit dispatch context and a single operator handling requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Allen
Iave
Wrank Rogers
A M E Church Plans Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Armory Hall
Members of the A M E Church announce a Thanksgiving Day dinner in Armory Hall with proceeds for the church benefice. A glorious dinner is promised and organizers hope for strong patronage. Dinner priced at twenty five cents.
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A M. E
Armory Hall
Governors Meet Over Western Rail Consolidation Fight
Iowa Governor-elect Cummins in New York says no Iowa opposition to a Western railroad consolidation while warning against potential rate hikes and reduced service. Minnesota Governor Van Sant plans to invite anti consolidation governors to unite against the Great Northern and Northern Pacific deal.
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New York
Cummins
Iowa
Western Railways
Northern Securities Compny
Perth
Ines
Lowa
Northwestern
Trial of Mrs Bonine Opens With Murder Theory
The trial of Mrs Lolanda Bonine for the murder of James Seymour Ayres Jr. opened with Assistant District Attorney Hugh AC Taggart outlining the prosecution’s theory that Bonine murdered Ayres after gaining access to his Kenmore hotel room via a fire escape window. No new light was shed by the day’s witnesses.
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Washington
Lolanda Bonine
James Seymour Ayres, Jr
Hugh AC. Taggart
Ayres
Bourne
Kenmore Hotel
Ihenins
Boniie
State convention backs re enactment of Chinese exclusion law
In San Francisco a 1500 delegate convention gathered yesterday to press Congress to reenact the current Chinese exclusion law which expires next May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Tennessee line fight leaves one hunter dead in Kentucky
In Middlesboro Kentucky on November 22 a clash with Virginia hunters who crossed into Tennessee to hunt resulted in a man’s death. The incident arose after a posted farm hunting prohibition. Authorities say hunting on posted farms is forbidden, and the homicide followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesboro
Virginia
Tennessee
Rescue Toll Rises as Bullion Tunnel Death Toll Grows
From Telluride reports the Bullion tunnel disaster has recovered twenty nine bodies so far. Search efforts continue to explore the extensive tunnel workings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Cole
Telluride
Bullion Tunnel
Praise for Abatoberlan Cough Remed Cure Letter
A reader from Wheeling West Virginia extols Abatoberlan Cough Remed for severe coughs. After a second dose the user reports relief from coughing pains and chest ache with claimed pneumonia avoidance and full recovery.
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Jacob Ulery
Ulery
the Journal
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Sievert
Carl
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Uncle Sam
Gonzales Esteves
Torres Cardenas
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Caracas
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Huide
Senor Esprella
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Senor Silva
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Glass
Chicago Grain and Produce
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Northern Pacific
Great Northern
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van Sant
Minneapolis
Great Railway Trust
Jamison
Great Northern-Northern Pacific
Northern Securities Company
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Cons
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Frank Stkwar
X. M. Sprouns
CM. Krex
Frank R. Sac
Pennsylvania Coal
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Delta
Centerville
Beacon
Canton
Douds Station
Oska
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Tel
John Shields & Son
I. J. Dempsey
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Johnson
Lad Fea
Harwood
L. E. Latta
Joseph Pollard, Jr
Jsquine Ton
H. Knecht
Washington National Bank
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Tombie
oWa
W. H. Butterfield
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Reenington
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Washington County Savings Bank
Schuyler W. Livingston
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A. Dewey
Attorney-At-Law
West OF Washington CO. Savings Bank
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Charley
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Wanamaker
Brown
Philadelphia
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First National Bank
Washington, Iowa
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Dave Keltner
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Uscatine
California
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Indianapolis
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Eread
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Ria
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Geo
Batty
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