Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-15
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has been published by Moffat, Yard &
Company, New York. Imagine two
financial magnates. one New Yorker
and the other Texan, with finish
feud between them, and their daugh.
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love but uncertain Of each others iden.
titles. Richard tackles the compii.
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The leading place in the November
Atlantic has been given to a sum-
mary by s. w. Mccall of the work
Of the Firty-Ninth congress,-the
congress that passed the rate bill, au.
thorized free alcohol, and expended
eight hundred millions Of public
money. The Massachusetts, congress
man Is noted for habit of speaking
his mind without fear or favor and
his fourteen years of national service
give him good basis for judging OF
the character and significance OF the
latest session.
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son The Trail of The Immigrant"
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