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Jan .- Russian influenza or la grippe becomes epidemic in United States, in- cluding Delaware county.
Feb. 14-Muncie city council and Big Four R. R. compromise matter of opening High street ; new depot to be erected.
March 3-Citizens' National Bank moves to Anthony block.
April-Muncie Board of Trade, after suspension of activity, revived for a short time.
July 4-Galliher grove on south side of Muncie opened as recreation park, under name of Heckin Park.
Aug. 23-American Association for Advancement of Science visit Muncie and witness wonders of natural gas; three hundred scientists and men of affairs in party.
Sept. 10-Work on Big Four depot at Muncie begun.
Sept. 5-Black letter headlines announce formation of new development company, commanding $10,000,000, to boom Muncie, by building factories, making and improving streets, and linking southern iron fields to Hoosier gas belt.
Oct. 5-English Lutheran church, Howard and Liberty streets, dedicated. Oct. 9-Third and Ninth regiments of cavalry hold reunion in Muncic.
Oct. 10-Muncie Homestead Company begins building fifty houses on the south side.
Oct. 13-Pres. Harrison, while en route, is given a reception at the Muncie depot, and thousands hear him speak.
Oct. 25-An Edison phonograph is on exhibition in Muncie, being the first local demonstration of an invention that, in improved forms, is now in many households.
Oct. 27-Death of William F. Jones, 77 years old : was director and secre- tary of the Fort Wayne and Southern Railway in 1848. in IS52 moved to Muncie, where he was alderman and mayor ( 1877-78).
Oct. 27-Muncie stirred by confession of witness. who claimed that T. J. Blount was murdered by employes of Richmond asylum.
Nov. 4-First election under Australian ballot system.
Nov. 20-Mrs. Maria Woodworth begins meetings in Muncie Church of God.
Dec. 6-Street cars run on Walnut street to Ohmer avenue; three of the old-fashioned steam motor cars in use in the city.
Dec .- City hospital proposed by Alderman Kilgore.
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Jan .- Agitation for 6 o'clock closing of shoe and clothing stores in Muncic. Jan. 10-Fifty houses completed by Muncie Homestead Co.
Jan. 12-The Commercial Club and its building first talked of in public print.
Jan. 16-Death of Isaac Meeks, who was born in West Virginia in 1829 and lived in Delaware county since 1839.
Jan. 27-Meeting to promote Commercial Club held in courthouse.
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Feb. 3-Sweigert's notorious gambling headquarters forced to close and gamblers disperse.
Feb .- Arrangements being made to manufacture ice in Muncie.
Feb. 10-Muncie Commercial and Social Club organized; James Boyce, S. C. Goshorn, John W. Little, J. II. Smith, George L. Lenon, first directors. Old Board of Trade rooms temporary headquarters.
Feb. 12-Joshua Truitt's sawmill, one of oldest in county, burned.
Feb .- Trade unionism gaining foothold in Muncie.
March 20-Contract let for iron bridge over West Jackson street, to take place of foot bridge formerly in use.
March 27-Death of Samuel Haines, one of Muncie's carly merchants.
March 30-W. D. Whitney makes proposition to city council for city hos- pital ; accepted May 4.
April 19-Death of Dr. Stephen Hathaway; in Muncie since 1844.
April 21-Death of Dr. Milton James, prominent as physician, in Demo- cratic politics, and in affairs of city ; his wife a daughter of Andrew Kennedy.
April 21-Fourth annual exhibit of Muncie Art school.
April 28-Madame Fanny Janauschek, the Bohemian tragic actress, who died in 1904, plays "Meg Merrilies" at Wysor's; "a classical enter- tainment" is the verdict of the Daily News.
May 2-Ohmer avenue car line is completed.
May 6-County asylum destroyed by fire.
May 18-Death of Samuel Ambrose Wilson, in banking business at Muncie for thirty years.
June 4-Death of Judge Elcazer Coffeen.
June 6-Jacob II. Wysor purchases corner of Mulberry and Jackson streets as site for new opera house. The old Wysor opera house was on the southwest corner of Main and Walnut streets.
June-People's National Bank organized, with $100,000 capital.
June 23-Indiana Music Teachers' Association meet in Muncie.
June 29-Trades Council organized in Muncie-representing a dozen unions, with united strength of one thousand mien.
July 21-Death of Robert A. Gordon, oldest resident of the county; came here in 1819 with family of Andrew Broderick, and carried chain for the government surveyors in the survey of the county; after- wards did much railroad contracting.
July 4-Muncie celebrates with unusual elaboration and gaiety.
July-Kirby House exchanges its mansard roof for full fourth story; ele- vator also installed.
July 25-Dr. R. J. Gatling, inventor of famous gun, in Muncie investigat- ing its resources ; but eventually fails to locate an ordnance factory in Indiana.
Ang. 5-Work begins on Wysor Grand.
Aug. 8-Boys find two skulls east of Muncie ; old settlers conjecture them to be the remains to two traders who passed through town one day in 1851, and whose wagon was found the next day, but nothing of the men.
Aug. 10-Barnum and Bailey in Muncie.
Aug. 14-Citizens' Enterprise Co. formed.
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Aug .- Muncie Shoe and Leather Co.'s plant sold at auction by receiver.
Sept. 3-Death of "Aunt Patsy" Branson, aged 94, widow of Isaac Bran- son, who settled on Buck creek in 1828.
Sept. 7-Muncie's first Labor Day celebration.
Sept. 16-Death of George Shafer, aged 91, who had lived on his place two miles west since 1822.
Sept. 18-Ilighlands mill at Eaton burned.
Oct .- Western Improvement Co. prepare to boom Yorktown.
Oct. 28-$100,000 fire destroys Ball Bros. stamping department.
Nov .- Muncie City Hospital, S. Council street, completed; Dr. W. D. Whit- ney, the promoter and superintendent of the institution.
Dec .- Duplicate whist first comes into vogue.
Dec. 14-Senator Voorhees introduces a bill to provide Muncie with a post- office building; the appropriation was not secured, notwithstand- ing several efforts made about this time.
Dec. 18-Asahel Thornburg celebrates ninety-ninth birthday. Born in Ten- nessee, a soldier in war of 1812, voted for nineteen presidents, and lived in Liberty township since 1825.
Dec .- North View a new suburb just north of river ; houses under construc- tion and gas mains being laid.
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. Jan. 3-Death of Duncan Williams, a resident of Hamilton township since 1836.
Jan .- Delaware County Republican Club organize for the presidential cam- paign.
Jan. 20-Death of Boyd Linville at New Burlington, aged 82; one of the pioneers.
Jan. 23-Dr. A. B. Bradbury instantly killed at Hedricks crossing cast of Muncie by Big Four train.
Jan. 29-Muncie Woman's Club celebrates sixteenth anniversary.
Jan. 31-United Presbyterian church in Muncie burns.
Feb. 9-Muncie electric light plant, completed, drives darkness from the streets with one hundred arc lights.
March-Ball Bros. stamping mill resumes operation in rebuilt quarters.
March 20-Adam Wolf, well known merchant, banker and business man, dies, aged 84 ; in Muncie since 1855.
March-"The sight of one of the ungainly motors ploughing through the business streets of Muncie is something that the majority of our citizens are not altogether satisfied with."-Daily News comment in urging the installation of an up-to-date electric car system for Muncie.
March-Agitation for renumbering Muncie's streets by the Philadelphia plan, with Walnut and Main the dividing lines.
March 27-Patriots' day celebrated in Muncie, Gov. I. J. Chase being the orator.
April 1-Death of George Elliott, Muncie jeweler since 1855.
April 12-Walker Whiteside plays "Hamlet" at Wysor's.
May 5-Ezra Kendall plays "A Pair of Kids" at Wysor's.
May-Tappan Shoe Co. organized to establish factory in abandoned plant.
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June &Building of Common Sense Engine plant begun. Contract let for new Presbyterian church at Charles and Mulberry streets, to cost $42.300.
June 18-Hemingray and Over glass factories burned to the ground, a spark from a switch engine starting the fire; loss of nearly a quar- ter of a million dollars.
July 1-Great Homestead strike inaugurated; Muncie Rolling Mill Co. signs union scale.
July 5-Muncie Daily News changes to a morning edition of eight pages. July 5-Fifty new houses to be built in Congerville to accommodate the newcomers in the factory district.
July 7-Work begins on the $65,000 paper mill at Albany.
Aug. 5-Contract for Broadway bridge over White river let for $15,500.
Aug. 6-Announcement that Whitely machine works will move to Muncie from Springfield, Ohio. "Whitely" the name of a new suburb to be formed across the river and east of the Fort Wayne tracks.
Aug. 15-Council resolves to build a garbage furnace in Muncie.
Aug. 19-Citizens' Street Railway Co. organized, with $250,000 capital ; directors, W. N. Whitely, O. S. Kelly, W. A. Scott, all of Spring- field, O .; A. L. Conger and K. B. Conger, of Akron; J. S. Talley, of Terre Haute, and George F. McCulloch, who was named in the articles of incorporation with the understanding that he should resign in favor of Mr. James Boyce. Council granted their petition for construction and operation of electric lines by this company.
Aug. 20-Fortieth annual fair brings out record-breaking crowds.
Aug. 23-Auction of Whitely lots ; excursions run from neighboring cities to bring in purchasers; a "love feast" in evening at Wysor's.
Aug. 25-Reunion of 69th Reg., I. V. I., in Muncie.
Aug. 26-Muncie Nail works burned, with loss of about $50,000.
Aug. 27-Sale of lots being pushed in Heekin park.
Aug. 31-Architectural Iron works burned; loss of about $40,000.
Sept. 1-Cornerstone of Muncie Presbyterian church laid.
Sept. 2-Campaign of '92 opened in Muncie at Wysor's, where "Col." Charles W. Fairbanks was principal speaker.
Sept. 6-Boldt's glass factory suffers loss of about $15.000 by fire.
Sept. 15-Wysor's Grand Opera House, after a year in building, is opened to music and drama with Thomas W. Keene in Richard III.
Sept. 16-Reunion of the "Iron Brigade" in Muncie.
Sept. 29-Midland Steel mills begin operation.
Oct. 11-Ohio Wagon works destroyed by fire.
Nov. 2-John Wanamaker, postmaster general, makes political speech at Wysor's.
Nov. &-Election day ; Cleveland elected president, but Delaware county gives a large plurality for the Republican ticket.
Nov. 14-Death of John F. Sanders, lawyer ..
Nov. 26-Lake View Hotel, in West Muncie, completed.
Dec. 28-Courthouse is damaged by fire that starts from leaking gas pipe ; many records and documents in the court room lost, and loss is about $25,000.
Dec. 30-Whitely inaugural ball a brilliant social event, Gov. Chase being
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among the distinguished company that celebrate the beginning of Whitely factory suburb.
1893.
Jan .- Strike of L. E. & W. switchmen interferes with factory operation in Muncie.
Jan. 16-Council passes the first of many ordinances providing safety gates at railway crossings in Muncie; the railroads did not comply for several years.
Jan. 27-Eastern Indiana Jersey Cattle Breeding Association organized; Lewis Moore, president ; James Boyce, vice president ; M. S. Clay- pool, secretary ; J. G. Bowers, treasurer.
Feb. 5-Muncie Cycling Club organized.
Feb. 16-Population of Muncie estimated at 19.763 by Charles Emerson, publisher of directory.
Feb. 22-Lake View Hotel, West Muncie, opened by reception and grand ball by Muncie lodge of Elks.
March 7-Citizens' Street Railway Co. begin construction of line from Whitely, through town on Walnut and Main streets, to the West side. Miss Minnie McKillip inaugurates work by casting the first shovel of dirt at Wysor and Monroe streets.
March-City council resolves to pave business district with asphalt ; the reso- lution is not carried out for several years.
March 2-Metropolitan police bill passes both houses of the legislature. extending the system to Muncie. A. W. Chapman, Vernon Davis and W. E. Hitchcock were appointed first commissioners by the governor. They in turn appointed James Miller first chief of po -- lice ; patrolmen : George Ball. William James, John Galligher, William Cole, Adam Deems, John Seldomridge, Curt Turner, George Benadum, Van Benbow, Hamilton Beall, Brinton Alstadt. 9-Chicago, Indiana and Eastern Railway incorporated.
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March 31-Muncie Coil Hoop Works, on Westside, destroyed by fire; loss, $10,000.
April 9-Citizens' Electric Street Railway Co. steal march on protesting property owners by laying track down Walnut street to Main and thence to High carly Sunday morning, when injunctions cannot be issued; the city police do not interfere.
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April 10-Muncie Handle works destroyed by fire.
April 18-Garbage furnace on North Walnut street finally completed.
April 19-Helen Modjeska, supported by Otis Skinner, plays "As You Like It" at Wysor's Grand.
April 29-Center township gives majority of 628 in favor of tax for subsidy to Chicago and Southeastern Railroad and the C., I. & E., provided they are completed within certain limit ( which they are not ) ; Salem township gives 41 majority against tax for former road.
- April 29-Death of Dr. Solomon Snell, for twenty-four years in Muncie.
May 5-Cowan has a fire that destroyed washing machine works of William Neff.
May-Strike of union carpenters ties up building operations in Muncie.
- May 13-"Muncie's new electric street railway system is now in operation."
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pleted from Main street north on Walnut, by the Wheeling pike to the fair grounds, and out Wysor street to Broadway in Whitely. At the power house, just completed on North Walnut, a reception was held; there was music ; speeches were made by G. F. McCul- loch, secretary of the company ; Mayor Brady, Supt. Gotschal. The mayor started one engine, Miss Clara Koons the other, while Miss Fannie James switched on the current. Invited guests made sev- eral circuits of the line to the fair grounds. One who rode remem- bered the time when he had Chilled beans near where the power house stood."
May IS-Muncie Military Band organized; Charles McDonald, president ; Charles Davis, director.
May 15-Death of George W. Robinson, well known city official.
May 19-Dunkards' convention at fair grounds.
May -- C., I. & E. R. R. begin building line from Fairmount to Muncie.
May 25-Ground broken for Malleable Iron works on Wysor's Heights. May 26-Street cars begin running to Whitely.
Jane 3-Farmers purchase "home-made" harvesting machines at Whitely. Dinner is served under the trees of Wood's park to purchasers and friends by officers of the company, followed by a parade through the city.
June 10-Muncie's streets without signs and houses without numbers, so that it is impossible for strangers and even residents to find their way.
June-The financial stringency of 1893 is felt in the country at large, and flourishing Muncie has intimations of its effects.
June 16 -- An electric motor supplies power for the Morning News press. June-Bell Stove works, west of Muncie, began operation.
June 17-Whitely Malleable Casting Co. incorporated by B. H. Whitely, Elmer J. Whitely, Thomas Liggett, D. W. C. Bidwell, R. R. Ar- mour, A. L. Johnson, G. F. McCulloch, A. F. Patterson, John Whitely.
June 19-City decides to furnish market place for farmers' produce.
June-Consumers' Paper Co. building a factory on west side to manufacture strawboard.
June 30-Glass factories and iron mills close for summer, and anxiety is felt, though not generally expressed, as to whether they will reopen in the fall.
July 1-Electric cars are running out Howard street to Westside.
July 6-Lime kiln, on Granville pike, just north of the river, a famous old landmark, being destroyed.
July 12-Fire partly consumes a house on North Walnut street in which Volney Willson taught school during the forties, and which was also used as store and dwelling.
July 13-Receiver appointed for Common Sense Engine Co.
July-West Muncie, with its Lake View Hotel and "Delaware Lake," has a brief reign as popular resort before hard times.
July 28-Muncie is infested by "bums and thieves": products of hard times. Aug. 4-Temporary suspension of Citizens' National Bank. President Ker- wood assures depositors that assets are ample ; the cause assigned
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being inability to realize quickly on good paper. Nearly fifty of the most prominent citizens of Muncie, representing collective re- sponsibility of $3,000,000, signed a guarantee of deposits in the Citizens' National, the Farmers' National, Delaware County Na- tional and Merchants' National Banks. This and other acts by individuals significant of the buoyant confidence of Muncie people in general. Comptroller Eckels, on hearing of the action of Mun- cie citizens in guaranteeing their banks, said: "That is patriotic, unselfish and good citizenship. That is the kind of stuff men should be made of. If the intelligent and patriotic citizens in all sections of the country, who know that their banks are safe and honestly conducted, would band together in that fashion, it would improve the credit of the country and put a stop to bank failures in most instances."
Aug. 7-President Cleveland's famous message demanding repeal of silver purchase act and repletion of gold reserve.
Aug. 12-Arthur W. Brady appointed receiver of Citizens' National.
Aug. 12-Tappan Shoe factory closes for lack of business; also Darnall Nail works, and other plants reduce force of employes.
Aug. 24-Morning News reduces size from 7-columns to 6-columns.
Aug. 28-Street car franchise granted for 35 years. Many citizens express opposition to length of grant and free bestowal of public streets on private corporation.
Aug. 29-New chemical engine, long needed by fire department, is tested; a patrol wagon also a recent acquisition of police department.
Aug. 31 .- Muncie branch of Gas Belt League, for promoting welfare of the city and gas belt, organized, officers being: W. A. Sampson, T. H. Kirby, F. J. Claypool, C. E. Everet, Charles Emerson, and James Boyce.
Ang .- Severe drought does much damage in Delaware county.
Aug .- Muncie has smallpox epidemic on south side; for six weeks no street car runs south on Walnut strect.
Sept. 6-Darnall Nail works and Midland Steel works resume operation.
Sept. 7-Proclamation from Muncie health board on smallpox epidemic. warning against public meetings and congregating on streets and insisting on vaccination. Fifty-two cases since beginning of epi- demic. Churches, Sunday schools and public school suspended, and quarantine against Muncie is declared in surrounding towns. Pest house built in Congerville.
Sept. 13 .- "One might be led to believe, observing the quietness of the streets, that Muncie is a village. Just as soon as this tem- porary panic is allayed, those 20,000 people will spring to work with an earnestness that will soon substantiate the claim that Mun- cie is the chief city of the gas belt."-News editorial. From this time there is a noticeable absence of enthusiastic accounts of build- ing, factory progress, etc.
Sept. 13-Citizens' Electric and Muncie Street Railway Companies con- solidate, new company being incorporated with $300,000 capital, $100,000 preferred stock bearing interest at seven per cent. Direct- ors : J. Smith Talley, J. W .. Landrum, of Terre Haute; Edward
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Wells. Burlington, Vt .; G. F. McCulloch and Charles Miller, of Muncie.
Sept. 16-The "dummy" street car line being changed to an electric line ; F. G. Brownell, superintendent of the old line, turns over manage- ment to new company.
Sept. 18-Muncie resolves to borrow $5.000 to fight smallpox scourge. In one week trustee of Center township issues one hundred relief orders to the poor of Muncie, indicating how the financial panic, the epidemic and general decline of prosperity affected the city, that only a short time previously was flourishing.
Sept. 30-The News finds encouragement in the business outlook, a revival of industry, and beginning of relief from smallpox.
Oct. 4-Leon & Metzger, clothiers, established in Muncie before the war, and with stores in several other cities, fail.
Oct .- Isaac J. Williams, stockman, wins five prizes on sheep exhibited at World's Fair.
Oct. 9 -- Muncie Iron and Nail Co. accept a receivership, their as- signment being caused by failure of one of the stockholders.
Oct .- Central Union Telephone Co. said to have over 250 customers in Muncie.
Oct .- Over Glass factory resumes work; also Common Sense Engine works, the receivership having been dismissed.
Nov. I-Electric cars begin running to Avondale.
Nov. 4-Smallpox quarantine, after lasting eight weeks, is raised, by per- mission of the state board of health. General jollification, assem- bling of people on streets, blowing of horns, burning of red fire. On following day church bells call the people to divine service, and on Nov. 6, the public schools are opened. Mercantile business re- vives at once, and the country people, so long barred from town, bring in their produce and trade at the stores. Quarantine estab- lished Sept. 11; 146 cases and 20 deaths. The city fought the disease unaided until the last four weeks, when the state gave aid ($3.400). Total cost of epidemic to city was $40,000.
Nov. 14-Opening of Walnut street electric line to Congerville (New York avenue).
Nov. 22-Citizens' National Bank, after a suspension of three months, re- opens its doors. . Charles MI. Turner, a native of Muncie, succeeds W. M. Marsh, who has been connected with the bank as cashier for eighteen years.
Nov. 19-Methodist Protestant Church on East Jackson street dedicated.
Nov. 20 -- Electric line installed on East Main street to Macedonia avenue, taking place of old "dummy" system.
Nov. 23-Samuel McCreary, who came to Washington township in 1838, with Philip Woodring, Ezra Maynard and Nathan Maynard, dies near Gaston, aged 92.
Nov. 23 -- A. J. Buckles awarded a congressional medal of honor for gal- lantry at the battle of Wilderness.
Nov .- The first autumn in which football flourishes as a popular sport in Muncie.
Dec. 8-Agitation for first long-distance telephone.
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Dec. 21-Regular service begun over Powers and Council street electric lines to Avondale.
In 1892 building permits in Muncie were issued to the value of $314,703. In 1893, the corresponding figures, exclusive of suburbs, were $147,622. This remarkable decrease may be attributed to the carpenters' strike in May, the smallpox epidemic in the fall, and the general financial panic that was felt throughout the latter half of the year .- Fire losses in Muncie for 1893 were $34,106, more than half of the total being insured. Total alarms were eighty-cight. The running expenses of the city of Muncie during the year 1893 were $101,217.36.
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Jan .- Muncie Muck Bar Co. succeeded the Darnall Nail works. Jan. II-Court house is lighted by electricity.
Jan. 16-Citizens' Enterprise Co. elect James Boyce president, W. M. Marsh vice president, Cicerge L. Lenon treasurer, and G. F. McCulloch secretary.
Feb. 3-Over Glass factory shuts down because Wilson tariff bill cuts duty on window glass nearly in half.
Feb. 15-Lake View Hotel at West Muncie attached by sheriff.
Feb. 17-Patterson Glass works at West Muncie sold by receiver to George L. Lenon.
Feb. 19-Muncie Commercial Club organized "to promote the commercial and manufacturing interests and general welfare of the city of
· Muncie." C. M. Turner, president ; Thomas McKillip, vice presi- dent ; Frank Claypool, secretary ; E. M. Smith, treasurer, and T. F. Rose, A. W. Brady and C. M. Turner, executive committee.
Feb. 26-City council orders "standard asphalt pavement" of Walnut street, from North to Willard; Washington street, Walnut to High ; High, Washington to Jackson; Jackson, High to Mulberry: Mulberry, Jackson to Main; Main, High to Madison. Contract let in April, the cost in round numbers to be $$0,000. The question of paving had been a live one in Muncie for several years. The graveled streets in the business center were as inadequate for the service de- manded as had been the old-time mud streets of the early forties. Deep ruts, thick mud and sloppiness had been favorite themes with the press when civic criticism was in order or news items were scarce.
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March 13-Chicago and Southeastern Railroad (Midland) begins grading from Anderson to Muncie.
March 26-Plant of Consumers' Paper Co., built during hard times, is com- pleted and begins the making of strawboard.
March 27-Police assist the progress of a delegation on their way to join Coxey's Army of the Commonwealth.
April 11-Mlle. Rhea plays the "New Magdalene" at Wysor's.
April 12-Two hundred and seventy-three telephones in operation in Mun- cie : hard times caused nearly forty instruments to be taken out in past six months.
April 13-Ground broken for plant of Patton Hollow-ware Mig. Co., in Boyceton. (This concern was short lived).
May 8-"Gen." Aubrey's army of thirty-four commonwealers of the Coxey
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