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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25

the sincere sympathy Of the COM
munity.
The funeral service will be held at
the Congregational church tomorrow
afternoon, at ago O'Clock, where he
was regular and interested attendant.
The city officials and fire department
will attend the services in a body.
The City Hall has been appropri-
ately draped, anu the "Sisby" robed
in garb of mourning.
In the face of deaths sorrow we
ask not, how he died, but that mighter
question, "How did he live?" He
lived, an honest, upright man, and
died as he lived.
$50 lice, that when thy summons comes TO join
The innummerable caravan that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
Notice.

AT the next regular meeting of the
Bennington Temperance and Reform
Society, the Rev. Geo. II. Wilson, OF
Owosso, will deliver the address on
that occasion. The meeting is called
at $3.50 Sunday afternoon, July 4th,
on the Old Settlers picnic grounds,
one. half mile north of the station. Mr..
French, of Owosso, has charge Of the
music and he intends TO introduce a
chorus of SO voices. accompanied by
band and organ. Come one and all.
LENA CURTIS, Sec.
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Organ Recital.

Another musical treat is promised
the public on next Wednesday even
ing, goth inst, at the Episcopal church.
Prof. White, of Flint, promises an
other Organ Recital, in which several
Of his Owosso organ pupils will take
part. The chief musical attractions
will be his own mastery handling of
his instrument. One of the most
prominent lady singers of Flint will
be invited to Je present. The chorus
of Prof. Meyers will he requested to
repeat two of he beautiful sacred
chants sung at the late concert. Mr..
Moore will probably execute a cornet
selection with organ accompaniment.
The entertainment is practically free
as a collection Of only 10 cents will
be taken at the door Program can.
not now be printed but will be an.
nounced in the evening.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
Stock Notes.

If Mr.. Fitch is able to drive, sever.
al Owosso horses will be started in
the Lansing races next week.
Geo. w. Slater, of Bennington, re-
Gently sold to l.. ]. Cody, of Big
Rapids, a four year old filly by Byerly
Abdallah, dam by Gen. Thomas
Price SAID to be a good one. Mr.
Fitch is handling the illy at the track
Symbolic, by Napoleon, made q
record of 1888 at Chicago, Saturday
Oscar Sharpstene is at Mason with
his trotting mare Matt, and will take
part in the races
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
Tho Peoples Popular Star Lecture
Course.

Negotiations are pending for the
engagement of the three stars, Mrs.
Helen Potter, Camilla Urso, assisted
by her grand concert company, and
Miss Kate Field. No words of ours
can add aught to their reputation, and
no extended notice of their several
merits is needed or desirable. The
course will be SO arranged that the
entertainments will he presented at
intervals OF two weeks apart. If our
citizens wish to secure this rare liter
airy and musical treat, they should
signify it by signing for course tick.
ct, at Holman's or Parkill & Sons.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
A Monster Tape Worm Captured.

One of our we'll known citizens has,
for some time past, been troubled
with tape worm. He attended the
lectures Of the Indian medicine man
at the camp here, tried the great
Kickapoo Indian Worm Killer, and
was delivered of a monster tape worm
measuring IS feet in length. Call at
the camp and see it, as they have it
preserved in alcohol.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
Visitors to Detroit This Week.

Partridge & Co., have announced
a great cut In summer goods to begin
this week. They have an excellent
stock of dress goods, millinery, EN-.
broidery and laces which they say
have been reduced nearly one-half in
price. Those in need of anything in
this line cannot fail to profit by read
ing their advertisement in this issue.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25

Good shirt waists, IS cents each.
We are closing out our stock of the
celebrated STAR $I.oo shirt waists,
white andcolored, at SO cents each.
OSBUsN & Sons.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
Baptist Tea Social.

The ladies of the Baptist church
will give tea Social in the chapel
from to 9 O'Clock Friday evening.
This will be very pleasant affair
and the ladies having it in charge
would be glad to see large attend
ance.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25

Just received-the finest line of
cigars ever put on sale IN this city.
complete assortment Of domestic,
imported and Key West goods, at
Grahame & Connor's.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25

WANTED:-A girl to do general
house work in family Of two. In
quire OF l.. L. Gould, Pine street.
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voice, "I-I didn't expect you so soon
OF | would have taken him up stairs
But did want to rock him to sleep so
much. Yes, its my baby" she cX-
claimed, desperately. "You never
u year now. Baby was just i've weeks
old when his father died. I have
kept him in my own room always, in
The third story, when you were home;
hut 1t was so close up there. And
now you--youll turn u away, Of
course, and ! don't know where well
go, for nobody wants babies, and your
board helped so much, too -
Ida broke down, and burst into
tears.
Mr.. Campion was at her side in
second, with his arms thrown around
her and the baby, too.
mo, no, Ida" he whispered, for.
getting his embarrassment. "I'll never
turn you Off. | want you to stay and
be-and be my wife. viii you, Lida?"
Ida looked little startled.
Your wife Mr.. Campion? And
and baby, too?" she asked, somewhat
irrelatively.
"Yes, and baby too" was the
answer. Dear little thing | love it
already.
Mrs. Laurel, who had just come
home, looked quite surprised at the
tableau in the back paror, but very
discreetly slipped away to change her
dress and see about getting tea.
Mr.. Giles Campion Is bachelor no
longer, having won his wife through
the medium of Furnished Rooms. -
TChicaro News
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To MuBnnr D.. DowNsNG.

Aztec. ve rode. ! .lnry spread afar
Let genius shine still crandor than tho sun
Upon this man, by lar the brightest star
That ever Oh our Stage battlC won.
lie Who arose from out The common ranks
Nov towers high above the wOud'riug
crowd
Then rise, yc gods Bring forth a golden
crown,
And place It on his temple broad and fair;
Ring like silvery clarion his rcnowu.
For Of the gods of genius he's the heir,
-[JAY WRIT KALI.
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OLD Nnmiminn Nnira.

George w. Wick, sheriff of southampton
County, has resigned on account of ILL
health.
DR.. r. II. Cox of West Point, who died
on Sunday last, was a member Of tho
Secession Convention of 1861.
Sea-turtles are taken at Cape Henry this
season six feet long, and In larger numbers
than ever noticed before.
The closing exercises of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute ut Lexington will take place
tomorrow morning, and Governor Lee will
be present with his staif,
The final exercises of the University OF
Virginia will extend from Sunday, June 27,
to Wednesday, June 80, The address be-
fore the Literary societies will be delivered
on Tuesday next by Representative Brecken-
ridge of Kentucky. The alumni address
will be delivered ON Wednesday by Judge
Charles Il. Fenner Of Louisiana.
1T. . q
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The postonice Department.

Tho Gonoral POstOfIoo Dop0rtmont Is on the
square bounded by L, f, seventh and
Eighth streets II Is a handsome building,
boldor brother, the Patent Office, some.
what obscures its great size and tends to
lessen its beauty, Its different bureaus
possess great interest to the visitor, but the
lie Observed. The collection of Curiosities
taken from the mails in transit, as spcci-
mems of the uses To which the Nations pos
tai couycyanCes are put is both varied and
UNIQUE Everything mmailahc from an In.
dian tumahawk toa stuffed Kangaroo is to
lee seen In this collection, and IL is still
growing,
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The Columbian University.

Coming down Fifteenth street from the Louise
Home at the corner of Fifteenth and II
yorsity, which occupies the site of the old
Griswald mansion. This university was in
corroratCd as Columbian College in 1921,
and is under the special supervision of the
Baptist Church. 1t is an institution famous
for the discipline and thoroughness of its
instruction,
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rhc IntcrIor Dcnartmcnt.

or, as II is uupuiarly termed, the Patent OF
flee, occupies the two squares between Sew
euthand Ninth and aud q streets. II Is
built In the Duric style, and is an admirable
Greek STYLES. II contrasts finely with the
General Postonicc, which is Corinthan, the
most ornate Of the pure Greek modes of
architecture. The curiuSitieS of the Patent
thousands of ideas have been mutcriali2cd
and exhibit themselves TO the gaze in every
stage of invention. This building, Ike most
of the Government Offices, Is open to the
visitor from a, m to > n, m, The libraries
of the Interior Depart mont are well worthy
of "A visit The great Inauguration ball nt
Liucou'S second term took place In the
Patent once.
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Corcoran Art Gallery.

The Corcoran Art Gallery is at the corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and seventeenth
street, opposite the War, Navy and State
Department. 1t is open Tuesdays, Thurs
days and saturdays free; on other days Tex
cept Sundays Il small admission fee Is
charged. This gallery, although not to be
leres, Is nevertheless a very creditable in
stituton for so new country as the United
States. II contains among other original
objects Powers great statue of the Greek
SluNp.n
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war, Navy and state Departments.

This cdifCe. once named by a Washington
journalist the "rriunc Building" occupies
The west side of the Presidents reservation,
Immediately west OF the White House. The
state Department occupies the south part,
the Navy Is located north of the state while
the War Department occupies the ontiro
northern half. II Is new and very hand
some structure. The most beautiful room
In the whole building is conceded TO he the
library of the state Department, with south
front, from whose windows the eye can
sweep unintoTuptedly down the Potomac
to MI Vernon and far over the Virginia
hills The building is in the Italian Ronais-
sance. II is 561 feet long and 3i3 feet wide.
Its greatest height is l2S feet, and the tlag,
floating over the central portion, launts in
the breeze higher up than any other ilag i'm
the city, not excepting those above the
Senate and House of Representatives. The
cost of the building was five millions of dol
lars, about three times as much as the
White House, and, we think, as much as
the Capitol.
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The Botanical Gardens.

Passing eastward from the Museum, over
the railroad bridge that spans sixth street,
and through the pretty park lying between
Maine and Missouri avenues the visitor
comes To the entrance on Third street, Just
south of Pennsylvania avenue, of the Boz
tanical Gardens. These interesting grounds
are open daily from o in the morning to
in the evening. They We're established
20 years ago. The conservatorios are filed
with the choicest and rarest foreign plants
Around the gardens are extensive collcc.
tions of trees and shrubs. In the centre of
the lawn facing the centre conservatory is
the famous Bartholdi Fountain that at
tracted so much attention at the Phiadel-
phia Centennial
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The weather Bureau.

The Signal Service, or Weather Bureau, is
about one hundred yards west of the state
WaI and Navy Departments, on G street, 1t
is one of the most interesting places in
Washington to visit. The observers in
charge, when at leisure, always take
pleasure in showing visitors how they
"mnnuiuCturc weather"
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Thc LOMisc Home.

The Louise Home is beautiful building at
the corner of Massachusetts avenue and
Fifteenth street, near Scott Circle. II has
extensive grounds, beautifully cmbellished,
and is unique establishment. 1t Is Il
memorial to the wife and daughter of Mr..
W. W, Corcoran and Is intended as a home
for ladies of education, birth and refine
ment, who have been reduced to poverty
from aiuenCe,
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The Peace Monument.

Just half way across the Avenue from the
northeast angle of the Botanical Garden
And at the west foot of the Capitol Grounds
Is the Peace Monument. This was de-
signed by Admiral Porter In honor of the
dead soldiers and sailors of the late war.
II Is of marble and cost, with pedestral and
platform $4,000. II is proposed to remove
this monument to one OF the squares on the
northwest section,
p1r II. ,,s
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DaNY tsurns' COttagc.

One of the curositles of Washington is old
Davy Burns Cottage, on Seventeenth street,
near the river. 1t may be reached by the
drive south of the Presidents House or by
the Metropolitan or Avenue line of cars.
Next door to IL is General Van Ness once
stately mansion, where he brought his
bride, Marcia Burns one Of the original
heiresses of Washington.
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The bureau of Education.

Tho Bureau Of Education Is in IA brick building
due north Of the Patent Onice. The visitor
with scholarly tastes and instincts will not
complete collection of objects illustrating
the progress and condition Of education
throughout the world.
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Thc printing nnd Engrnying nurenu

street southwest, southeast from the Monu-
ment and southwest from the Agriculture
Bureau. II Is reached by the Belt Line
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Fresh Alderney butter, churned every
morning and delivered in ! ID. "Ward"
Luttermlk and sweet milk, sc. per -qt
Cream, l5c. per pit.
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Nlnsnnir TrnnIc.

WcstWard from the lUtent OiliCe across Ninth
street at its intersection with f
street Is the handsome Masonic
Temple, erected in 1893 This build
iug Is one OF the most complete in It's ar
rangcments of any building COnsocrated TO
Masonic uses In the country
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The Treasury Department.

The Treasury Department Is east Of the White
House and extends the whole length OF the
front between Pennsylvania and New York
avenues, II Is So feet long by 800 feet wide,
The central east portion Is built of lreoatone,
rehuil, In 1S3G-ll, while the other parts were
commenced In 1855 and built of gl"'''
The Cash Room in this building Is II .,
tiful apartment In the north wing, the en-
trance to which is from the north porch,
The vaults are under the cash Room aud
can he seen ON ~ written permit given by
the treasurer of the United states, whose
office Is IN the north east angle ON the first
floor This permit must be shown the cash
Ter who will detail guides 10 take the ysl-
tor into the great bullion chests of the cOun-
try. The old state Department used TO be
ncr OF the Treasury,
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vrr.lirrl sam.cnua

On Tenth street between o AMI Is, round Tho
corner westward m NlHouiC Temple is
tle famous Mcdicri MuscYm. This huild-
ing was once "a prominent Baptist Church. lt
was converted about the beginning OF tic
war into theatre, -nWu the country over
ns Ford =. and 10 WIS ir 70 private hos there
IN April, 1865, Chat John wilkes Booth
Killed President Lincoln The latter was
carried % % house, iu.t opposite, where he
died marble tablet I'M front of the house,
No. 5lj Tenth truct. commentaries lls
fact. TIE theatre was then scguc'iratcd by
the Government and turned into the Mol.
ioal Museum attached go the SurgcOu-Gcn-
erals Office II Is fan OF interesting surgical
relics Of the war, and has the largest me u
cal library In the world Among the curl
Ositics within It's walls Is the artiuulatel
skeleton of Guitcau, the assassin OF Prcsi-
dent Garfield. Coming down Tenth street
from the Medical Museum the visitor will
not tail TO inspect the massive aud bcluti-
lul Post Building, In which is situated the
office OF TIM tRrrtC. This Is the largest
newspaper establishment south Of philadcl-
phia and cast of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. -Four Of the leading and most nilu-
Cntiul journals In the cuuntry-tw morning
one evening CrnE CWrir) and one indepen.
dent sunday papcr-havo their home In this
establishment.
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The NnhlingtOn MonMmrnt.

south Of The WhItc llOusc stnnIs
the Washington Monument, the loiticst
posing obclisk ever constructed n Is $50
feet above It's base which Is i9 feet above
tidc.NatCr. Its cornerstone was laid luly
was placed in position December d. 1881. In
II are ISL blocks of inserted stones or cop
per. gifts from various countries and So.
cicties. The total cost will he over II 3iD
goo, II Is situated in what will ultimately
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The NaynI OhscryntnrY.

To the West Of the Washington Monument,
on the highest elevation that borders the
north bank of the river, between st. Eliza
bcth's Heights and Georgetown College,
stands the Naval Observatory The hill ON
which II stands Is famous for having been
the camping ground of Washington, Brad
dock, and the latter's army, when ON their
march 10 the fatal field, where the English
General fell q victim to his selfconcct and
vanity. Tradition also points out this hill
as the decisive battle ground between the
District Indians and the mysterious Susuio-
hannas. This observatory contains the
largest rciracting telescope In the world,
next to the new equatorial Just built for the
Lick Observatory. BY its and that most in
teresting, II not greatest, astronomical dis
coyery of the country was made, the moons
of Mars. The entrance to the observatory
sat and Twenty third stre1ts northwest.
The llerdic cabs 60 to rwentysccond and
q streets.
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Lafayette Square.
ut. sohn's II. II. Church.

st. Johns p. T.. Church, which has been often
called the State Church because more PIesi-
dents have worshipped there than at any
teenth streets It was built in 1915 and en-
lnrged in 1870. In It have worshlppcd Pres
idents Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams (though the latter was Congregl-
tionulist Martin Van Burcn, though he be-
lCngod to the Dutch Reformed Church, llar-
risun, Tyler, Polk, Taylor Fillmore (though
the latter was q Unitarian, Pierce, Buch-
anan and Arthur. Presidents Lincoln,
johnson and Grant have also attended Di-
vine services here although not steadily, Its
interior reminds one very forcibly Of the
old dim English country Episcopal churches.
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THE VISITORS GUIDE.
Objects of hteros. in and About tho
National Capital,
TIE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
Parks, Squares, Statues, Gardens aud
other Points of Attraction.
THE WAY TO REACH THEM.

Washington Is fast becoming the
most attractive city of the country. As
the Capital of the Nation it presents
more objects of interest to the visitor
than any other on the continent, and q
brief directory of its prominent points
will be of service to the vast number of
persons who annually resort to the po-
litical metropolis. For 1t is estimated
that over three hundred thousand
strangers pay visit every year to this
city to behold the varied objects of in
terest which so thickly stud the his.
toric "'Ten Miles Square" or these
objects the most conspicuous are of
course the Government buildings.
Chief among those Is, first
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Unprecedented Attraction!
over Quarter billion Distributcd!
Louisiana State Lottery Co.

Incorporated IN 1868 for % years by the
Legislature for Educational aud Charitable
which reserve fund OF over $3.50 90 has since
been added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made part of the present state
Constitution adopted December ., a. ID. 1879.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take
place monthly II Never Scales or Postpones.
Look at the following Distributions
Grand Monthly Drawing, at the Acad
emy OF Music, New orleans, TUESDAY, July
-, 1856.
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g. Delicate diseases, affecting
male or female, however induced, speedily
and permanently cured. illustrated book
for 10 cents In stamps. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, GG3 Main street,
Buffalo, n, Y
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nrunrtt,cnt rr .yust,ce.

north Of thc Trcn mr. building
and Just across the sttcct Is Tine Jup1rf
mont OF Justice. This uUdlnu was origin.
square iu which Il Is erected ls % historic
orc. ON tNC same street, at Oh" ca-' corner,
stands Riggs Bank which was built ior the
accommodation Of the Wd.biugt u l'3gch
uait OF IL IT, now occupied hy tha c.rss of
the Surgeons Generals O1,.C. Nriuul the
corner w. The west i3 thc Comni f,irF-]cl
Ctal's once, formerly tUr old Washington
Key was shot by SicNIos The tree. under
which the dead mans body lay Is stUl
standing, although its bark had been com.
rlotoly removed by relic hunters Az the
northwest corner Of the square, above the
Commissary Generals Onlcc, Is the horse
made famous by the ownership Of Comno-
dore Decatur and where dolly" Madison
lived and regnod so long social queen
piTpd,
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Tie Geological Bureau.

The Geological Survey Is located ON + street,
near the Ebhitt House The Interior De-
partmcnt building, immense as IT II, Is en-
titcly too small for the accommodation of It's
tional and Geological Bureaus agriculture
and pcnsion are located In other quarters.
These two last bureaus are among the larg
psI mnlnr thn GnNnrmmnni-
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The National Museum.

The National Museum Is In the Smithsonian
grounds, u few yards east of the SnithsO-
nian building. IL contains thousands of the
most interesting curiositics, samples of the
life, customs and history of all nations, It.,
as well as the Smithsonian, Is open daily to
the public from 0 a. IN. TO 1 ID. IN.
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The Centre Market.

The Centre Market occupies the squares
south OF the Avenue, bounded by B street
on the south, Seventh street on the east
and Ninth street ON the west. II lsa very
handsome market building, exocled In
beauty, and probably in sZe, by none in the
while also the chpaDest market in America.
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The Smithsonian

Across Twelfth street, Immediately east from
the Agricultural Department, are the
Smithsonian Institution and the Smithso.
nian Grounds. The former Is n specimen of
the most graceful architecture In the city
and the latter form the most beautiful
Landscape garden In the country. These
grounds of themselves are worth a visit to
Washington TO sec. They contain the
memorial urn to the artist who designed
the park, Andrew j. Downing, and the
bronze statue of Professor Henry, the first
secretary of the institution. The latter Is
at the northwest corner OF the building; the
Downing Urn is In the centre Of the grounds
The Smithsonian is filed with the most
varied and interesting objects connected
with science, II Is reached by the seventh
Street the Ninth Street and the Belt Line
of street cars
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The Agricultural Dcpar.mrnt.

This building is situated east of the Mont
ment. II Is enclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden in the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
Arhoretum probably IN the United States.
Attached to this Department are tho EX.
perimcntal Gardens, whose offices are i'm.
mcdiately west of the main building. The
Belt Line cars go right past the grounds,
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"AIderncy Dairy wagons.r

Living monuments to the power of st
Jacobs Oil are the millions IL has cured.