Steptoe Faces Alibi Trial in Lynchburg Case
In Danville Virginia a jury trial began for Herbert Steptoe charged with criminal assault on Gladys Shelton, 18. A sister testified he was with her in Lynchburg the morning of January 7, while another witness said he was seen there at 11 a.m. The defense argues an alibi as witnesses claim two Black men were involved in the attack and the bread request suspect Hutson is named in connection with the crime.
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Lynchburg
Washington Peat
Danville
Corporation
Herbert Steptoe
Gladys Shelton
B R. Shelton
Amberat County
Besun
Steptoe
Miss Shelton
Court House
Steptes
Aiken
Milas Shelton
Mids Stonne
Depice
She
Peter Hutson
Tepics
Hutson
Abduction Charges Arrest Norfolk Pair in Newport News
Special to The Washington Post Newport News March 6. Tom Mor den and Hanson Woodhouse both of Norfolk were arrested by Chief Reynolds on warrants charging abduction. Ada Satherthite and Davy Farrar both fifteen were abducted. The party spent last night in a hotel. Ada’s father and Farrar’s uncle arrived with others and the elder Satherthite was said to have attempted shooting before intervention by James Curtis and locals. Mor den and Woodhouse were jailed. the girls were sent home.
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Washington Post
Newport News
Tom Morden
Hanson Woodhouse
Norfolk
Reynolds
Ada Satherthite
Davy Farrar
Shoo Gis
Pary
William Satherthite
Ada
Farrar,kirt
Chesapeake and Ohio
Satherthite
James Curtis
Murden
Woodhouse
Gills
Mrs Hartwig Wins Suit Over Support From Ex Husband
The Washington Post reports a verdict of 1125 for Mrs Ida Mo Hartwig of Baltimore against her former husband William Alvey Specter of Beaumont Texas and late a resident of Hagerstown. The suit sought 1229 for support of their two children Richard H Alvey and Mary Virginia Alvey. Mrs Hartwig and her mother Mary A Startzman testified as witnesses. Mr Alvey could not appear. He recently inherited a large estate from his father the late Justice Richard H Alvey. The couple separated in Washington about ten years ago and she later remarried Dr Charles Hartwig of Baltimore.
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William Alvey Specter
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Ida Mo Hartwig
Baltimore
William Alvey
Beaumont
Tex
Hartwig
Richard H Alvey
Mary Virginia Alvey
Mary A
Tug Philadelphia Ensnared In Ice Floe In Delaware River
The steel tug Philadelphia of the United States engineering department was caught in a large ice floe near Dover Mott New Jersey in the Delaware River and disabled. The crew sent word ashore and Maj Flagler arranged the tug Taurus to assist. The Philadelphia was towed to Wilmington for repairs with no injuries reported.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
Del
Philadelphia
United States Engineering Department
Delaware River
Tore Mott
Greasel
Maj Flagler
Taurus
Fortifications Inspected as Sumner Party Sails to Washington
Washington Post reports that a Sumner Congressional party at Old Point and Hampton Roads practiced target shooting with a 10 inch disappearing gun and reviewed a fortified artificial island site near the capes before Sumner sailed for Washington. Elsewhere in Virginia a fugitive, Charles Earle, was captured in Petersburg. he had escaped Farmville jail and was serving sixty days for short changing merchants. Educators plan a Pinehurst conference opening April 9 led by Mitchell of Richmond College. W C Fox, American minister to Ecuador, arrived New York by steamer Finance from Calon.
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Sumner
Hampton Roads
Washington Post
Newport News
Congressional
Old Point
Capes
Washington
Petersburg
Charles Farle
Farmville
Prince Howard County
Earle
Pinehurst
Richmond
Dr . Mitchell
Richmond College
Conference For Education In the
South
Pinehurst NC
Ecuador
New York
Mar
W C Fox
Finance
Calon
Stikeleather to Testify in Merrill-Mill Divorce Case
Testimony before U S Commissioner Britt resumes tomorrow as Gilliand Stikeleather, named co respondent by Mr Mitts, is ordered to testify under contempt penalties. Stikeleather plans to appear, arguing affidavits about visits and embraces with Mrs Mills were obtained while he was drinking.
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Asheville
Mar
United States
Britt
Gilliand Stikeleather
Mitts
Mills
Smithsonian secretary and rabbi guard dresses at GWU fund meet
Dr Charles D Walcott and Rabbi Abram Simon have agreed to guard dresses at the next joint meeting under Citizens and Alumni Committees aiding George Washington University site fund raising. The gathering at the Shoreham next Monday evening invites friends of the university with a buffet supper. Special invitation boards were sent for Thomas F Alderson and Edward C Brandenburg.
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Charles D Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Abram Simon
Washington Hebrew Congregation
George Washington University
Shoreham
Thomas F Alderson
Citizens Committee
Edward C Brandenburg
Hundreds search for missing Horace Marvin Jr near Dover farm
Dover Delaware March 6 hundreds of men and boys scoured fields woods and the bay shore around Kitts Hammock for four year old Horace W Marvin Jr who vanished while playing near a barn with his sister Searchers pressed through ice covered inlets as the father Dr Horace W Marvin and authorities including Attorney General Robert H Richards pursued a kidnapping theory amid probes by state detectives and deputy sheriffs
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Washington Post
Dover del Mar
Kitts
Delaware Bay
Horace W Marvin, Jr
Horace W Marvin
Thse
Marvin Farm
Robert H Richards
Wilmington
Marvin Place
Little Horace
Horace
Harris Converts to Judaism to wed Washington Bride
T A Harris a Washington NC merchant and former Meth odist member joined Orthodox Judaism at B Nai Israel Synagogue in Norfolk to marry Mrs J Wahrhaft of Washington NC. He won her heart but she doubted his faith, yet his persistence led to a conversion and planned wedding in Norfolk with them to reside in Portsmouth. Harris, 33, and his bride elect, 27, marry after his change of religion. Harris previously clerked in a store owned by Mrs Wahrhaft’s husband.
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Washington
Norfolk
Harris
Washington NC
Methodist Church
B'Nai Israel
J . Wehrhaft
Washington, N C
Wahrhaft
Portsmouth
Mra Wahrhafty
Hounds Trail A Woman In Bristol Fire Case
Bloodhounds from Bristol track a fire’s trail to the home of Dr Oscar Hawk after a blaze at W F Beath's residence. Mrs Hawk, about eighteen, allegedly deme nted by drugs, is guarded in Bristol awaiting confinement. Separate item: Miss Abbie Augusta Beavers marries Russell Omohundro at Charlestown in a Winter ceremony. The couple will reside in Lakeland, Virginia. Also: Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line ordered to build a union passenger station at Wilmington with plans due in sixty days.
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Washington
Blount
Bristol
W F Beath
Oscar Hawk
Specine Wosge
Charlestown
Abbie Augusta Beavers
Benjamin B Beavers
Russell Hudson Omohundro
Florida
C Syden/ stricker
Summit Point
Katharine Fitzroy Omohundro
Frank Loring
Charlottes iHe
Gilbert Hudgins
Vernon Perkins
Richmond, Va
S J C Moore
F B Hoof
Harry Lansdale
Washington, DC
Samuel Omohundro
South Carolina
Lakeland, Va
R Omohundro
Washington Post
Raleigh & Ward
Corporation Commission
Seaboard Airline
Atlantic Cast Line
Wilmington
Plains
Commission
TRUST MEASURE DEBATED IN RAILROAD CONFERENCE
The senate considered the anti trust bill from the judiciary committee. An amendment sought to include news associations and public service firms selling to a single newspaper. The house passed the freight rate bill on third reading with penalties restored. Subpoenas issued to probe conference committee charges on the railway bill. The pension bill carrying 3400,000 annually passed the house.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
Senate
Judiciary Committee
House
Justice
Buxton
State Board of Equaltation
Asaees
Glenn
Raleigh Times
Billad
Page
Aberdeen and
Asheboro
Special House Commission
County Court House
Two Cadets Disappear From Lingley Military Institute
In Wheeling West Virginia two cadets Walter Neuman and Loyd Hooch both under sixteen left the Lingley Military Institute claiming a trip to Norfolk to await the Jamestown Exposition opening. Accompanying them were two Martins Ferry girls. Neuman is reportedly the son of a Bellaire Ohio lawyer and Enoch the son of a Wheeling businessman. Authorities and police are searching for the missing youths and their companions.
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Specter
Washington Post
Wheeling
W VI
Walter Neuman
Loyd Hooch
Lingley Military Institute
Norfolk
Martins Ferry
Neuman
Bellaire Ohio
Enoch
Barley for Circuit Judge in Alexandria Rumor and Appointments
Rumor in Alexandria says Gov Swanson may designate Judge Louis Charley of the Corporation Court to act as judge of the Sixteenth circuit covering Alexandria city and neighboring counties until a successor to Judge C E Nicol is chosen by the legislature. Possible delays may let the legislature pick a future sheriff. Also reported is a murder case involving George Midgets sought for the 1906 killing of Charles T Smith, with a suspect held in Harrisburg and to be moved for trial.
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Waskington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Gov Swanson
Louis Charley
Corporation Court
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit
Fairfax
Prince William
C E Nicol
Congress
Eighth Virgina District
Brumback
Brent
Miness
Muder
Smith
Rockefeller’s Incognito Visit Ties Carnegie Gift to Shurtleff
Washington dispatch from St Louis reports Andrew Carnegie pledged 15000 dollars to Shurtleff College in Upper Alton. The story reveals John D Rockefeller previously toured the Baptist school undercover, using the name John Davidson at Madison Hotel. The gift likely spurs further Rockefeller support, after his prior 12500 dollar annual contribution.
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Washington
St Louis
Andrew Carnegie
Shurtleff College
Upper Alton
John D Rockefeller
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Shurtleff
Alton
Madison Hotel
John Davidson
Bellevue Doctors Stricken With Diphtheria Symptoms Reported
In New York March 6, Dr Frederick T Wurtel of Bellevue Hospital was removed to Willard Parker Hospital for Contagious Diseases after a doctor confirmed diphtheria. Dr Linde of the city board of health ordered the move and also isolated Dr Fisher and Dr Ross at their Bellevue residences. They exhibit symptoms that may be diphtheria or related illness, with further days needed for confirmation.
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Washington Post
New York
Frederick T Wurtele
Bellevue Hospital
Willard Packer Hospital
East Sixteenth Street
Linde
Board of Health
Wurtel
Wurtels
Fisher
Ross
Masons Prepare for Fair Five Weeks Off
Five weeks remain until the Masonite fair as boards and committees push plans. Advisory music tables and protection of buildings committees list members from Munsonio Temple Association and city fire units. Members include J Henry Small John H Olcott William C Long Dr Grafton D P Bailey James L Marshall and William F Gude among others.
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Board of Control
Munsonio Temple Association
J Henry Small
John H Olcott
Mattthew Trimble
James A. Sample
R Bond
Geojamin S Graves
Alexander McKenzie
Frank H Thomas
Thomas P Morgen
George W Evans
William C Long
Grafton D P Bailey
Charles & Wood
Thomas B Walker
Dd Gardiner
William Whitson
Edward E Long
Eugene Cochran
Clarence Weaver
John Hinger
J M Vora
E LY King
John Wright
Charles Dismer
Charles Loeffter
James L Marshall
William F Gude Aro
Mra C Loester
Elizebeth B McAteer
Elizabeth
P W Nicholson
Fie
L W Leib
B Smith
Virts
W Buhler
Sings While Under Knife During Ether Anesthesia
Special to The Workington Lost, New York, Warrock of Kearny New Jersey felled by a factory accident. While surgeons removed his fingers under ether he sang Mother Kiss Me in My Dreama in a full baritone. Four women in the next room wept as the operation proceeded and Warrock lost his voice afterward.
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Workington
New York
Mar
Samuel Warrock
Warrock
Kearny
Harrison
T de Dolphin
Dr Squier
Warrock Gang
Dr Dolphin
Washington party joins Virginia fox chase through ten mile hunt
A Washington group led by Frank Hallman and Robert R. Pietach joined a fox chase in Virginia, starting at Ram's Horn Inn at 10 am. The riders rode to Bladensburg and Riverdale, totaling about ten miles. Frank Hallman finally ran the fox to earth on his horse, near Hindenskuts.
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Washington
Virginnia
Adams Case Goes to Jury Over Murder of Gov Steunenberg
Jurors hear that the Adams murder charge centers on the 1906 killing of Fred Tyler, with defense objections to judge Wood’s instructions. Judge Woods states only the Fred Tyler murder and related coercion are in scope, while acts against Gov Steunenberg or Soule are outside the case. Officials emphasize no extraneous vengeance plots affect the verdict.
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Wallace
Idaho
Steve W. Adams
Fred Tyler
Richardson
Wood
Western Federation of Miners
Tyler
Adams
Guv Steunenbere
Woods
Fred Tyter
Guv Steunenberg
Steunenberg
Soule
Juniper
St Jon
Gentry Acquitted In Richmond Court Drama
Former policeman W J Gentry was acquitted in Richmond Police Court on the charge of assaulting Miss Josie Robinson of Buckingham County. The girl, who claimed to be nineteen, testified inconsistencies. Gentry received a reprimand for disorderly conduct and bonded for good behavior. The girl was fined for disorderly conduct but remitted as relatives intervened and she would be sent to Baltimore’s house of correction.
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Richmond
Washington Post
Richmond Va
W J Gentry
Josie Robertson
Buckingham County
Gentry
House of Correction
Baltimore
Three Years For Promoter Guilty Of False Pretenses
Special to The Washington Pass Baltimore Maryland promoter Bierra Richards pleaded guilty before Judge Dobler in the Criminal Court to securing more than 20 dollars by false pretenses from Raleigh Lilley. Richards, a former newspaper man and promoter, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Lilley testified that Richards claimed a contract with a Washington man Berry who patented a mortar process and promised a half interest in the patent. Lilley had advanced Richards 2000 dollars on false representations.
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Washington Pass
Baltimore
Mark
Dobler Fi
Criminal Court Today
Raleigh T Lilley
Bierra L. Richards
Richards
Lilley
Liley
Dodler
Berry
Washington
Powder Ship Adrift Near Holyhead in Irish Channel
The ketch Esmeralda carrying a large quantity of gun powder was towed into Holyhead. She was found drifting in the Irish Channel with no one aboard, an empty boat tied to her found half a mile away. The vessel’s condition implies a hurried departure by her crew.
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Holyhead
Weuws
Mar
Seven Hurt In Collision On Toledo, St Louis and Western
Seventy seven people were injured in a mid afternoon collision on the Toledo St Louis and Western railroad when an east bound passenger train struck a freight train. Among the seriously injured are Edward Kennedy engineer of the freight train Mrs Cora Welton Greentown Ind Allen Gaskell Neoga Ill and Mrs E B Word Delphos Ohio.
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Neoga Ti Mar
Toledo, St Louis and Western Railroad
Aye Edward Kennedy
Mra
Cora Welton
Greentown
Ind
Alen Gaskell
Neoga
Delphos
Ohio
Quarrel Ends With Knife Wound Near Four and a Half Street
Benjamin Quill a 32 year old Black man of Pleasant Court was wounded on the head and chin in a near Maryland avenue incident. He was taken to Emergency Hospital in serious condition. The assailant fled and has not been apprehended.
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Maryland Avenue
Benjamin Quill
Pleasant Court
Arm Bone Setters Return After Peru Truck Crash
Tha Weablogton or New York financier Jess of Detroit arrived on the Panama Over from Honduras to have his broken right arm reset after a 24 horsepower car plunged from a 300 foot cliff in Tegucigalpa. He and two others survived the wreck, rescued by native workers who hauled them up the cliff.
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New York
Jess
Detroit
Panama
Honduras
United States
Teguelgalva
Davis trial halts as defense challenges Chicago ordinance
Danville Illinois March 6 Win J Davis faces manslaughter charges for the Iroquois Theater disaster killing nearly 600. The defense objects to the proceedings and to the ordinance cited as the fire cause, arguing it may be invalid. Proceedings paused while legal points are argued, likely to take days.
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Danville
Win J Davis
Chicago
Davis
Irish varsity bill held up in Parliament
London Mercantile reports the government will delay the Ireland national university bill. Proposed by James Bryce before his London departure as Ambassador to Washington, the move cites an overextended legislative program and only partial approval among peers.
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London
Merc
National University For
Ireland
James Bryce
England
Bis
Washington
French Judge Fines Ursuline Nuns in Convent Eviction
In Nantes on March 6 a police court fined twenty-seven Ursuline nuns 820 dollars each and fined the mother superior for refusing to leave their convent under a law dispersing religious communities. The sisters argued the buildings and grounds belong to the order, authorized to educate. Demonstrations by Catholic sympathizers greeted the nuns as they left the court and returned to the convent with cheers.
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Nantes
France
Suffragettes as Martyrs Freed From Prison
British suffragists released from confinement after a term in prison for agitation at the House of Commons. Led speeches pledged renewed protests to press for suffrage legislation, with plans for further demonstrations as Parliament prepares to revisit the issue next Friday.
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London
Despard
Geveral
House of Commons
James Kier Hardie
Hmelish
Kaiser Plans Peace and Partial Troop Withdrawals
Berlin reports Colonial Director Dernburg opened the Reichstag debate on the colonial budget calling for 7.3 million dollars for military expenses in German Southwest Africa and 222,500 dollars as the first railway installment from Kabut to Kelmens Hoop. He outlined peace to be proclaimed March 11 and a plan to withdraw a substantial number of troops before July 1, plus universal conscription in the colony to force male colonists into service.
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German Southwest Africa
Berlin
Mar
Dernburg
Reichstag
Kabut
Kelmenshoop
Herr Dernburg
Bomb Wounds General at Sebastopol Farewell Banquet
General Nepluaff, commander of the fortress, was wounded in a bombing as he rode to a farewell banquet in Sebastopol. A bomb exploded under his carriage, injuring the general and his coachman while a bystander woman suffered serious injuries. Horses were also harmed. One assailant fled the scene. This marks the second serious attack on the general in a year.
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Sebastopol Mar
Nepluaff
Skrydiof
Oldest Inhabitants' Association inducts new members and honors Eichhorn
At the Linden Districts meeting in the Corcoran Building new members Gilbert Fowles Patrick Cleary Louis Schmidt W A H Church and Charles M Robinson were nominated. A resolution mourned Rudolph Eichhorn longtime treasurer and city benefactor.
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Rudolph Hichhorn
John B McCarthy
Rudolph Eichhorn
R Smith
Botanical Gardens
Washington
Hindens
Berlin
Beriin
Office Robbed of Stamps in National Guard District
The District National Guard offices were broken into Tuesday night, 14000 stamps of 1 and 2 cent denominations stolen. Charles W Brown of 1677 Rosdale Street arrested for possessing part of the loot and knowledge of the crime. four sheets of 1 cent stamps found with him. George W Thomas was detained after Brown implicated him. Thomas claims no involvement.
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District National Guard
Charles W Brown
Rosedale Street
Brown
George W Thomas
Thomas
Dembrobsky Wins DAR Prize At Franklin Night School
Seventeen year old Russian immigrant Dembrobsky read his essay The Making of an American and won a five dollar gold piece offered by the District Daughters of the American Revolution for the best essay by a night school pupil. Fellow Russian Jewish classmates Marcus Goldenberg and Walter Markof received honorable mention as ceremonies closed the night schools due to exhausted funds.
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Mirine
Franklin
William Dembrobsky
I Street
Southwest
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dembrovsky
Furrier
Russia
Marcus Goldenberg
Walter Markof
Hke Dembrobsky
Smallwood
H L Hodgkins
Simons
Emia
Noyes English
Central
areaNen Spencer Massey
Ballenger
Alrickson, Southard
Mootes Ulrickson
Alleged Mutineer Arrested in Virginia Trial
James Kelson indicted in the United States court for the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of complicity in the mutiny aboard the steamer St Johns last summer. He was arrested yesterday and brought before United States Commissioner Anson Failor. Kelson committed for removal to Virginia to stand trial.
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Mutneer
James Kelson
United States
Virginia
St Johns
Anson Failor “Kelson
Virgina
Trai
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DE Mehaffey
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R. E Lee Camp of
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E H O'Brien
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J . Alexander
T Wellington Rose
William F Carne
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Wasic Committee
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Pa. Avenue
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Sebastopol
Gen. Neplueft
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Fourteenth Street
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Alison Naylor, Jr
Washington Mirror
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Kentucky
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Geological Survey
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