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"And then, when / had become about
hopeless, l saw the advertisement of med
icine, DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and
nerve remedy. 1 procured some from the
druggist at once, and before / had taken
two bottles was so much better that was
astonished!
81 continued its use and now am feel
ing as we'll and sound as | ever was in my
life. can truly say that had it not been
for DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy should now be in my grave.
81 have recommended tEis wonderful
remedy to all of my friends 1 cannot
speak too highly of this great medicine,
and l earnestly recommend it to all who
are suffering from disease"
Our readers would be foolish indeed if
they do not follow Mr.. Wilson's advice, if
they are sick or out of order, for it is sure
thing that this remarkable remedy cures.
Besides it is purely vegetable and harmless.
The great physician and specialist in ner-
vous and chronic diseases, DIR. Greene of 81
Temple Place. Boston, Mass, discovered 1t,
and he and other physicians prescribe and
recommend it. The doctor also can be coz
suited free of charge in regard to any case
personally or by letter.
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East PiermOnt.

T. B. Wright lost horse last week.
Preaching at the church last week
by Rev. j. ID Cross of Vershire, VT.
Ellen Dowse is spending few days
at Mr.. True's on Atwell Hill.
Rev. j. D. Cross gave lecture on
Temperance at Church Hall on Satur-
day evening. @
John Goodwin has engaged to cut
lumber for LaMontague, and moved
on Monday near the new steam mill.
Mrs. Charles Savage has returned to
her rooms at George Howard's after
spending few days with Mrs. Phelps.
The stopping of business at the
mines on Ore Hill, has made some
changes in work here, as some were
employed by the Zinc Co, others
drawing wood.
Mrs. Asa Dowse is serving as house
keeper for Mrs. l. B. Wright during
Mrs Wright's absence at Franklin.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Wright were
called to Franklin last week by the
severe illness of their daughter Alice
(Mrs. Sanborn). Mr.. Wright return
ed on Thursday while his wife remain
ed to help care for their daughter.
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ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF.
Things Often Happen That We
Can Scarcely Credit.
This is One of Them, and We Give
Lit to Our Readers.
IL NAV Seem Remarkable, But We
Know That 1t Is All True.

A strange tale comes to us from Cham
pam, NJ T., where the principal in this
accordingly interesting account came very
near not now being alive to tell the story
1t would seem that well known resident
OF the town, Barney Wilson by name. fell
ILL., Now illness is common thing. but
not so that of Mr.. Wilson, as he SAYS him
self, now that the danger is ali over:
IL cannot describe how felt or what
suffered.
sit seemed to be at first mostly in nv
head could not think easily; nv head
felt dull and strange, and was tired and
weak all over
81 knew my nerves were weak and pros
trated; that had dyspepsia terribly. Why,
| could scarcely eat anything from one day
to another.
II could not sleep nights, and woke
mornings feeling.weak, tired and dragged
out. 1t came near being my death stroke,
| tell you, and we did not know what the
end would be.
'Can you believe it, lived and suffered
like this for whole year!
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West Ealrlaa.

Mrs Bert Bohonan and son were in
town last week.
Mrs. Thomas of Ludlow has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. DR.. Simp-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sleeper spent last Sab,
bath with her sister, Mrs. Tarbox.
Mr.. Colburn who has been stopping
at Mrs. j. G. Eastman's the past few
weeks, returned home Thursday.
Miss Alice Haven returned home
last week after an absence of five
months teaching school.
Mrs. Bigelow has been very sick the
past two weeks.
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Beware of Ointments For Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the ma
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from reput-
able physicians, as the damage they win do
is ten fold tO the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure.
manufactured by +. j. Cheney d Co., Tole-
do, D., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. 1t is taken internally,
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. j. Cheney
Il Co. Testimonials free.
sS-Sold by druggists, price 75c. per bot
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East Corinth.

Creamery meeting in school house
all-Saturday at l p. m.
William Fox is very dangerously i'll
with pneumonia.
Married in Topsham, Feb. 18th,
1898, by j. r. McLam, Albert Bedell
and Mrs, Matilda DeGoosh both of
Topsham.
The roads are in quite bad condition.
L. E. Rowe, who has been i'll, has
SO far recovered as to be able to go
out.
Born in Topsham, Feb. 18th. 1898, a
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank e.
Page.
The lyceum held Monday evening
was quite well attended notwithstand-
ing the amount of snow that fell. The
question was well discussed by the
disputants > J. e. Taplin, A. d. Emer-
son, G. M. Dearborn and Daniel Row.
land. The paper read was an excel
lent one and the editors, W. r. Row.
land and Miss Susie T. Taplin deserve
much credit.
Miss Hattie M. Page is visiting rela-
tives in East Haverhill, N. HI.
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. Granite State Local Items -
PiarnOnt.

Married at the parsonage, feD. oth'
by Rev. w. A. G. Converse, MI
BENJAMIN Newell of Lyme and Mrs.
Margie A. West of Oxford.
Fellowship meetings are to be held
at the churches Tuesday and Wednes-
day afternoons and evenings of this
week.
The post office in this village is now
a money order office. 1t has been
managed satisfactory to all parties.
Mrs. fl. H. Palmer has been at Hills
boro the past three weeks caring for
her daughters who have been sick with
the measles.
e. e. Grimes has been confined to
the house the past week by sickness
Mrs. Hosea Quint has gone to Man
chester to attend the funeral OF her
father, Mr.. Smith.
Mrs. Merrill is visiting her niece,
Mrs. Frank Chandler.
Duncan Corliss is moving to Rye
gate. We are quite sorry to have him
leave town. His wife has been quite
sick this winter but is now thought to
be improving in health, being able to
be up a part of the time.
George and Martha Washington will
receive at the Town Hall Friday even
ing, Feb oath. Box supper served at
O'Clock.
BROOK ROAD.
Mr.. Marden Simons was taken
severely ill on Sunday, DR. Chase was
called. At present he is improving.
Luetta French, Kate Webster and
Maud Robbie are attending school at the
village.
D. M. Corliss was in town the first
of the week, he has moved to Ryegate
in place of Corinth as he intended.
His wife who has been in poor health
for some time is improving.
The school in the Clay neighborhood
taught by Miss Mabel johnson closed
Friday the 10th. In the evening Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Day opened their house
for school candy pull which was en-
joyed by about forty friends. The
teacher feels very grateful to Mr.. and
Mrs. and Mrs. D. for their untiring
efforts to make the occasion enjoyable.
Mr.. j. Bennett is about to move in
to the house lately vacated by John
Wilson.
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OrfordYilla.

Minnie f Merrill is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. E. w. Cushman.
Mrs. Hale has gone to Cambridge,
Mass, for few weeks to be with her
daughter, Mrs. Langdon, who is sick.
The drama, "The Mystery Solved"
will be given at the Town Hall, Fri
day evening, Feb. 18th.
Lyceum next Monday evening.
Mrs. Tallman has received word that
her nephew, IL. f. Bickford, who went
to India as a missionary a few months
ago, is dead. The climate did not
agree with him and he has been sick
ever since he went there.
David johnson is in very poor
health.
On Feb. Sd, 1898, death again en-
tered Orfordville and removed Daniel
T. Hale, and in consideration of this
event,
Resolved, That this church loses good
cOuselor and a strong pillar the Christian
EndeavOr Society an active aid earnest
worker, the community an honest and
faithful citizen, and his family loved pro-
tectOr.
RESOLVED, That by the breaking of this
"brittle thread of life' we again see that
call below the sun is vanity"
Resolved, That the sympathy of the
church and Christian Endeavor Society be
extended to his bereaved and grief stricken
family.
RESOLVED, That copy of these resolutions
be sent to the family of deceased.
Rev. j. X. FLINT,
Mrs. r. E. RAsHBURN, , Com.
Miss +. N. MORRILL,,
Tapley's Thread Winnero outwears all
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Lyme.

The South Newbury station agent
takes quite an interest in the welfare
and progress of the primary school at
the Plain.
The late thaw and snow has greatly
increased the water supply at the Plain
and also thawed out the well at the
creamery.
Sidney S. Grant is very feeble. Miss
Anna Balch is quite sick.
A United States revenue officer has
taken Andrew English to Portsmouth
for not taking out liquor license.
Esther Sanborn has gone to Man
chester to visit her brother.
Will Fellows has bought a nice two
year old colt of John P. Southworth of
Post Mills.
Deferred Items,]
Adna Perkins has the mail route
from Thetford to Lyme Centre the
next four years, having underbid W.
+. Slack.
BIC. Newell was married to Mrs.
West at Piermont, by Rev. W. G. Con-
verse, the 9Th inst.
The antique social given by the Y.
P. S. G. E. Melted $29, the beginning
of fund for new vestry organ.
Bella Sawyer has bad ankle, con-
filming him to the house.
Nellie Simonds has gone to Cam
bridge for a few weeks.
The Grant brook is nearly frozen
solid SO our grist mill can run only
about ten minutes at time. The
great cry is, when will the January
thaW come.
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OrfOrd.

AT the annual meeting of the church,
held at Hon. Isaac Wizards, Wednes-
day evening, for the choice of officers,
Rev. S. r. Flint was chosen moderator !;
H. I'll. Conant, clerk Dea. d. l.. Clark,
treasurer; Isacc Willard, d. G. Clark,
A. w. Newcomb and ID. G. Sears, ex-
aiming committee. Those who did
not attend lost an excellent supper.
Mrs. G. b. Smith is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. B. Marshall, at Lyme
this week.
Miss Mary Corliss is quite sick.
Grin E. Stetson has gone to Andover
TO work.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-02-17

The senior proprietor of this paper has
been subject to frequent colds for some
years, which were sure to lay him up if not
doctored at once. He finds that Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is reliable. 1t opens
the secretions, relieves the lungs and re-
stores the system to healthy condition. If
freely used as soon as the cold has been
tied in the system, it greatly lessons the at
tack and often cures in single day what
would otherwise have been severe cold
Northwestern Hotel Reporter. Des Moines
Iowa, rs and so cent bottles for sale by A.
T.. Clarke.
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East HaVerhill.
Schools will close next week.


The w. c.. T. U. will meet next
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. 6.
w. Richardson.
Everett Smith came home from st.
Johnsbury, where he was attending
school, and is sick with typhoid fever.
DR.. Carbee attends him. .
Miss Cora LETTERS is taking course
in physical culture of Mrs. Morgan at
Haverhill.
Mrs. Frank Brown of St. Johnsbnry
spent few days at A. w. Smiths this
week.
The people of Pike Station presented
Rev. G. A. McLucas with nice ulster
and pair of driving gloves last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. True took a trip
to Woodsville and Wells River last
Saturday.
Sylvester LETTERS, who has been in
poor health for some time, died Mon
day evening. He leaves four brothers,
Lorenzo, John, George and James, also
one daughter Mrs. G. X. Blake.
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Noted Bostonian dead i.

BOSTON, Feb. IA. - Colonel Samuel
Hatch, one of Boston's best known
citizens. died last evening. Pleurisy of
the heart was the cause of his demise.
Colonel Hatch pursued his occupation as
I'm auctioneer for more than sixty years
in this city. He was born in 1912.
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Warren,

Seven inches Of snow fell Monday
night. Lumbermen have plenty of
snow now.
G. S. Davis has moved into Mrs.
Haitt's tenement.
Jessie Boynton went to Holbrook,
Mass, Tuesday to attend the funeral
of her brothers wife.
F. G. Hall has moved into his new
store.
Mrs j E. Davis has returned from
a visit to Lowell and Concord.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-02-17
Good Looks.

Good looks are more than skin deep, de-
pending upon a healthy condition of all the
vital organs. If the liver be inactive, you
have a bilious look, if your stomach be
disordered you have a dyspeptic look and
if your kidneys be effected you have
pinched look. Secure good health and you
will have good looks. Electric Bitters is
the great Alternative and Tonic, acts directly
on these organs. Cures pimples, blotches,
boils and gives good complexion. Sold at
A. T. CLARKE's Drug store, 50c. per bottle.
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PROVIDENCE, Feb 14-The striking
Berkeley mill spinners have returned to
work. The company officials say matters
in dispute will be amicably settled.
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What a Runaway Horse Did.

LIvERMoRE FALLS, Me-, Feb. ia
horse driven by Isaac Adams was fright
ened by a train and ran away, throwing
Mr.. Adams against platform, breaking
his jaw and injuring mis- skull His CON-
dition is critical He is about 90 years old.
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The attention of baseball players who re-
ceive wounds of one kind or another every
dav, from bat or ball, is directed to the fact
that Salvation Oil is the best application in
use for cure of cuts, bruises and sprans.
rs cents.
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TWAS sufferer from catarrh for fifteen
years, with distressing pain over NV eyes.
used Ely's Cream Balm with gratifying
results. Am apparently cured.-Z. Q. War
rem, Rutland, Vt.
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l SUFFERED from severe cold in my
Was advised to use Ely's Cream Balm. 1t
has worked like magic IN its cure. l am
free from my cold after using the Balm one
week, and believe i is the best remedy
known.-Samuel j. Harris, wholesale gro
Ger, 119 Front ST., New York.
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Ex-Governor Injured by a Fall

CONCORD, n. H., Feb. n.-Ex-Governor
B, Prescott of Epping fell upon an icy
sidewalk yesterday afternoon, fracturing
two ribs and sustaining other injuries.
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81 could keep nothing on my
stomach, and got so poor my
friends hardly knew me. | suf-
fered with severe headaches,
dizziness, faintness, backache,
and the blues
Thanks to Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable COMPOUND, |
am now as fat as ever, and
have no female troubles.
"If you use my letter / hope
it may be the means of saving
some other poor mothers life
as it did mine. Mrs. Ella
Van Buren,, Brazil, Ind.
An druggists sell n. address In eou8ssnee.
LrpTA E. PIxKHAN AkD. Co, LrsD. Mss.
Lfrsr huS rs cents.
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Tapley's "Bread Winner" outwears all
other shoes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19
AID IN AN EMERGENCY.

N. r..,x r,u A..
sist In Moving the Cotton Crop II n be-
come Necessary-what 1t Costs.
NEw York, Aug. 14.-Bradstr, ct says:
Special kilograms to Bradstreets's and
information received by the trade and
press within few days have indicated
the likelihood of crisis in the cotton
region owing to the inability Of bank
ing institutions there to advance funds
necessary to move the cotton crop with
ANYTHING like the usual freedom. II
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19
PEARY'S PLANS

Seriously Disarranged by Unexpected De-
lays-A Volcanic Eruption at tape Har-
rison.
ST. JOINS, n. F., Aug. 1.-THE Lab
rador mail steamer reports having
spoken Peary's steamer Falcon Mt Da-
Wis Inlet, northern Labrador, August 3.
She had been storm-bound two days
Peary had been engaged in visiting the
coast settlements for the previous two
weeks endeavoring to get dogs. but
had not succeeded, and then proposed
visiting the Moravian settlements to
the north and then going to Disco, as
he was certain to get dogs there. His
plans had been seriously disarranged
by the unexpected delay.
The steamer reports also n volcanic
eruption at Cape Harrison, Labrador,
on Wednesday, August 2. Fishermen
engaged off the cape heard great noises
and saw the whole cliff afire. They
landed and found portion of the hill
had collapsed and flames, stones and
cinders were issuing therefrom- The
steamers officers report having seen
the fire many miles away. The flames
were intense and plainly visible. As
there are no woods or buildings near
by it must be Of volcanic origin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events,
FiFTY-THiRD CONGRESS.



PURSUANT 10 call Of the ssasld mt colETess
met in extraordiasrs sessi6n OH the 1th. In
the senate irse before the stroke OF noon the
Vfce'pre-.dent's gavel fell and the chaplain
"rned the session with prayer. The usual
opening forms and ceremonies were OBJ
served, and the usual temporary com
mittees were appointed. after which
Nj White. of California. announced the
death, Curing the recess. OF his colleague
senator Stanford, out OF respect to whose
memory the senate adjourned. In the housc
tne usual opening day fOrmula was observed.
Mr. Crisp was reelected speaker and took the
oath; seats were drawn and after ordering that
the daily hour for opening should be Il m, the
house. at $3.50, adjourned.
IN the senate, on the 9Th. the credentials OF
George C. Perkins appointed by the governor
OF California to fill the unexpired term OF SEN
ator Stanford, deceased, were read and the oath
oil ofice administered. The president message
was received read and ordered printed. Sew
ersl Hills were introduced and referred In the
mouse after the reading of the Journal re-
cess was taken, and when the tody reassean.
bled the presidents message was read. The
Richardson Belknsp contest -d-election case
from Michigan was taken up aah decided, Oh
party vote. in favor Of hIr. Richardson.
1s t!fc senate, on the 9th, the only tier, 1t
business transacted was the refereace to the
committee on appropriations OF the house
Joint resolution &c rsbside for the payncat OF
seasonal employees of congress during the pres
ent extraordinary session. On the motion
to adjourn all the republican senators from the
silver-producing states voted with the mas
jo-ity ..... The house was not in session on the
9th
IL the senate. on the ie;h, tha Session occu-
pied less than twenty minutes. the proceedings
hein1 confined 10 the Lords prayer Iy the
chaplain; reading the journal. enf raced in u
couple OF paragraphs, and two yea and nay
votes on motions TO aijourn..-....I In the house.
after an early recess. taken to permit the silver
and anti-silver steering committees to onier
the speaker appointed the Speaker ald Messrs.
Catchings, Orthwaite, Reed and Burrows a com
m.ttec on rules, and the house adjourned.
THE senate was not in session on the 1ifh....
In the house. Immediately after the reading Of
the journal. Mr.. Wilson introduced the repeal
bill, and Mr.. Bland offered the agrecmcn. male
to govern the debate on tho silver question.
The substitute bill of the frce-cninsge caucus
was also presented by Mr.. Bland. The discus
sion of the question. to run fourteen days, was
then opened by hr. Raynor Idcm.. Md. who
spoke In favor OF unconditional repeal. fol-
lowed ny Mr.. Brown ,dem.. Ind. also for re,
peal. and Mr. Bland dem, Ind. for free coin.
agc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

The senate was no. IN session on the
l2th........In the house the discussion on
the Wilson bill was continued by
Messrs. Morse, Harter and Hendricks
for, and Messrs- Wheeler, Bowen and
Delegate Rawlings (Utah) against the
measure. A resolution was passed Or
dering 10000 copies of the presidents
message printed.
THE repair shops of tn e Nashville.
Chattanooga Il st. Louis Railway Co.
at Nashville, Tenn, were closed down
indefinitely on the 18th. The 800 EN-
ployes were paid their last months
wages, $4,000, in gold.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi. was visited by
destructive conRagration on the 18th,
consuming property estimated to have
been worth s2,0Oo,OoO. Against the
fierce flames and high winds that pre-
vailed the firemen ere'powerless, and
greater loss was only averted by for
tunate change in the direction of the
wind.
THERE is a sentiment among the bet
ter class in Nicaragua in favor of
United States protectorate. The
American minister at Managua is en-
deavoring to prevent an outbreak, but
is not seconded by other diplomats.
STRICT precautions have been adopted
by the German government on the
Russian frontier to prevent the impor-
tation of cholera. The whole frontier
has been elosed except at two places
where All arrivals are examined and
suspicisns characters are subjected to
n weeks quarantine.
The Cunard officers at Glasgow ap-
pear to be highly satisfied at the trial
of the Lucamia, the sister ship of the
Campana. On her preliminary trial
she made 2519 land miles an hour.
Her owners believe that she will prove
the fastest steamer afloat.
THE Minneapolis, sister ship OF the
commerce destroyer Columbia, which
was launched one year ago, was sue
cessfully sent from the ways at the
William Cramp & Sons Co. S shipyard
at Philadelphia, on the 18th.
A NEW ministry has been formed in
the Argentine Re,S,blic, as follows:
Quintana, interior; Ferry, finance;
Costa, justice; Campos, war and Viras-
ori, foreign affairs. The new govern
ment is well received.
HORACE LYON, manager of the South
American Steamer Co., is en- route
from Valparaiso for Washington,
where he will appear before the Chill
ian claims commission and ask for the
payment of s250,O0O damages by the
United States govern ment for the
seizure of the steamer Itata during the
struggle to overthrow Balmsceda.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREvTTIES.

Retrenchment and salary cutting Is going on
among all rhc big railroad corporations
II is understood that George Dixon and Solly
Smith will meet. sometime in September be-
fore the Coney Island Athletic club and dispute
for possession of q 10OOo purse.
Charley Mitchell is said to be training faith
fully for his fight with Corbett at Brighton. on
the south coast Of England.
Pension suspensions are growing at the rate
OF 40 to $50 daily.
Western Colorado settlers fear another Ute
outbreak.
The treasury gold is now e ocooOo in excess
OF the reserve.
Congressman Conn's musical instrument fac
tory at Elkhart Ind, has been closed tenn
porarily.
The proposed sa nitarium for knights OF
Pythias at Hot Springs. Ark, will cost Sb0e.-
OO0
A sweeping reduction Of wages BY the West
ern Union Telegraph Co. is announced
Chas Edwards was caught by . csving banb
at Couroclx Ia, and disemboweled-
C. o. Summers q convict In the Mississippi
prison, eneced a very clever escape. and q
green guard lost his JOB in consequence
Jake Gaudaur has again challenged Stans.
bury. the Australian oarsmsn. II the challenge
Is NOS accepted by September s Gaudaur viii
claim the championship Of ~ vesA