Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-20
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fhe January number comprises seven
teen short stories, each one complete
and all by popular and unohiectionahle
authors. Among those represented in
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contributed in prose, fiction and verse by
the daughters Of famous pareutage, as a
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The work of thirty of these daughters"
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the daughters of Tbackeray. Haw
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per, Horace Greedy, Mr.. Gladstone,
President Harrison, William Dean Row.
ellis, Senator Ingalls,, Dean Bradley of
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The January number of the Engineer
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American magazine work. and also a
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