The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-23
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With the number of the GAZETTE
now in your hands closes the four
teenth year of its publication. Some
of you have read almost every num-
Der from the first. Some of you fell
into line with the second year and
assisted in nursing the little child
into more vigorous life. Other friends
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the line, till now as our bantling APP
proaches its fifteenth year, it num-
bers its friends by the thousand,
scattered all over East Tennessee
and portions of all the surrounding
States.
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GAZETTE, feel sure that we are JUS
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share of attention from the GAZETTE.
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GAZETTE as Democratic journal
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ly newspaper. Your patronage, con-
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