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KNIcKERBOCKER MACHINE,
FIFTY THIRD VOLUME
Louis Gaylord Clark, Elitors
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John A. Gray, Publisher.
With the January nsuslIer begins the Fifty
Third Volume of the Knickerbocker, tire oldest
and best established Magazine in the country
and the Publisher has the pleasure to announce
that it has never before been in so prosperous y
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