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[TIMES' WAR ON THE CROONS
AND FAKIRS IS REVIEWED
OEfORE ADVERTISING MEN
> James Schermerhom Speaks at
Banquet of American Asso
ciation in Buffalo
) .
1 PAGES CAN BE KEPT CLEAN
‘ Blames Honest Advertisers For
Giving Appearance of Relia
*
bility to Scoundrels
BUFFALO, N. Y.. Feb. I.—The
twelfth annual meeting ot the Asso
ciation of American Advertisers closed
with a banqeut at Hotel Iroquois last
night. The speakers were George W.
Coleman, president of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America; Jason
Rogers, publisher New York Globe;
W. B. Hoyt, attorney New York Cen
tral; Thomas Fulmer, Woman's
World. Chicago; J-oroy Kulrinan, edl
lor Advertising and Selling; Adver
tising Manager Clymer of McClure's
Magazine; Thomas A. Dockrell, New
York: William A. Blakelee, district
attorney of Pittsburg, and James
richermerhorn, publisher of The De
troit Times.
, In introducing Mr. Schermerhom,
the todStmaster. Bert Moses, of New
York, .suld he had lea the tight for
cleatfi advertising in the United States
through the Detroit Times and on the
rostrum."
Mr. Scnermerhorn's subject was,
"Who makes fraudulent advertising
effective?" He Baid, In part:
Tht answers to this question- are not
m numerous and various and clamor
ous ns they wire to the query of our
ihildhood. "Who killed Cock ItoblnT'
Although they may have much to do
In determining who in to kill the goose
that lays the golden egg for both ad
vertiser and publisher.
Open ('onfeaaion is good for the soul,
and tills is the season of brave reso
lution*. wnen strong men shrive them
selves before Janua. god of the gates
of the New* Year. .
Lei us as publishers and advertisers.
In the language of the litany of pub
licity. here and now declare that we
have done many things we ought not
to have done and huve left undone
those things we should have done, and
there is no health in us.
And the things done and the things
left undone by you. advertisers and
publishers, fix upon you the responsi
bility for fraudulent advertising be
coming effective.
"1 don't call any names," said the
sitter-in at a poker game, "but there is
a one-eyed cuss here dealing from the
bottom of the pack and if hg don’t stop
it I’ll shoot Ids other eye rut."
I’tti not seeking to be offensively di
rect and personal when I say that
those who are making fraudulent ad
A Try Tells Why!
For a time this new food was served exclusively to
guests of the famous Post Tavern at Battle Creek, a
hotel noted for its excellent table.
Now it is offered to the general public for use in the
home. Post Tavern Special is a particularly pleasing
blend of the rich field flavors of wheat, rice and corn
and should be served hot, as a porridge. Grocers sell it.
Tomorrows Breakfast
» %
Made by POSTUM CEREAL CO„ LTD., BATTLE CREEK. MICH.
vertising effective are sitting at this
dinner tonight. „
The bad penny does not return of
It* own momentum. Monteone has to
help It along on its round trip.
Tlm lea.l dollar Is the most
dangerous In the bauds of the honest
man and In the society of genuine coin
of the realm.
The glib gentleman who has corner
lots to sell In the queen city of the
west, where the only industry Is the
crossing of two railroads, likes to come
Into our midst splendidly credentialed
A card to the leading club Is an essen
tial part of his thimblerigging equip
ment; or a letter from his home banker
or pastor answers very well.
Rascality dearly loves to wear tne
robes of respectability and hobnob
with leading citizens. Grafters get
their opportunity from standing in the
congregation of the righteous or sit
ting In the seat of the futthful
So long us you a're willing to lend
I tile Influence of your legitimate bu*l-
I ness to| bolster up some unmitigated
' fraud in mediums that <to not care, 1
cunnot see tlmt you* have any Just
grievance against the humbugs
Unless you are protected by a repu
tation that Is known of all men. to the
public view you are birds of a feather
because you (lock together.
The fable of the one bad apple that
spoiled the hnrrelful doesn't apply
' here; but the sac t that your advertis
ing Is know’ll to be dependable is
•bound to beguile some trustful - soul
1 into believing that he is getting a
, barrel without n single unsound apple
i In it.
You want to make the disreputable
tremble by going after them with the
I statutes, but hadn’t you better stop fel.
low shipping with them first?
Will you not be In a better position
to have the law on undesirables If you
flrst refuse to hold companionship with
them in the columns of the newspapers
that carry both your business and
theirs?
It doesn’t sound very righteous to
call upon the authorities to cotne and
arrest our boon companions, our day
by day cronies in the advertising
columns.
Ho you are not only companions to
the crook but cappers for him. as well,
so long as you travel with him.
The first condition, then, of this slm-
Rler solvent of the problem to which
onest advertisers have addressed
themselves, Is to get out of the news
papers that hold the confidence man to
be aa acceptable as you are
Don’t stand by In the next column
consenting to his ensnaring of victim*.
Mr. Hugh t’halmers hus served
notice upon offending newspapers in
Detroit that in no case is the copy of
the Chalmers Motor Cos. to go on the
same page as objectionable medical
and financial advertising This is a
start, hut I think Mr. Chalmers is too
conservative in bis deference to the
speed laws He ought to go farther.
If by using the same mediums that
thev use. you are making the scheme
i of fraudulent advertisers effective, you
lean do much to destroy their effective-
I ness by refusing to use such mediums.
Incidentally this will deflect your
advertising Into newspapers that have
been keeping their pages clean for you
with the lpng-cherlshed hope that some
day you would get so on tire for honest
publicity that you would buy some
of It.
In nearly every city In the country
It is now possible to procure news
paper space for legitimate advertising
without Joining a confederacy of
scoundrels and it seems to me that
rebuking the offending publications
and recognizing those that .ire pro
gressive. is a far better plan than look
ing to congress or the legislature for
relief.
There is an old maxim that applies
here —"the world Is governed too
much." We se© the force of this every
da?/ in the fruitless attempts to make
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THE DETROIT TIMES: THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1912.
people commercially righteous by
I statutes. My own belief Is that legi«-
I Intioa should he the last. Instead of the
I tlrst reliance of those who look for a
I better order of things socially or In
dustrially.
We should exhuust every other re-
I sourer; wo should and« our level best by
| example and precept to make adver
tising universally ethical and believable
before putting another law upon the
statute-books, there to stand as a
token of our lethargy or Cowardice.
l-aws to be effective must represent
the collective will of the people and
this collective will must be continually
expressed by a free press. Hucli emi
nent men. Indeed, as Kdmund Burke
and Thomas Jefferson, have given
newspapers a place above all other
forcts of government In Imparting sta
bility to democratic institutions.
What hope Is there of enacting a
, federal advertising law that will be
effective until the newspapers, so seri
ously itffected by such legislation, are
convinced of the wisdom and Indlapen-
Habllity of the proposed legislation?
Un<jl they have been touched by a
de©j, -sens© of responsibility for the Im
position upon their readers through
unscrupulous advertising, it Is not con
ceivable that .(hey will rally enthusias
tically for a measure aimed directly at
Ihelr revenues
T|iere is nothing either in the courts’
delays n "justice travels with n leaden
heel") or In the discussion now wag
ing us to whet Iter existing business
laws should be enforced—after a long
period of numbering—to encourage an
appeal to Interstate regulation for the
correction of advertising Ills *
If a statute such as Printers' Ink
recommends should be enacted and then
be permitted to lapse Into passivity
until the predatory tendencies of ad
vertisers prod some executive Into
reviving It. forthwith there would arise
. a wall that he was destroying pros-
I perlty and Influential advertisers
would solemnly Hver that they couldn't
toll w’hetlmr they were obeying or vio
lating the law—thus encouraging some
statesman to declare that there were
good advertisers ami bad advertisers,
and to propose u commission to sepa
rate the sheep from the goats!
I it’s only after every other solution
j fails that we should rush in where
angels fear to tread. It was a blunt
disciple of Blaekstono who willed his
fortune to fools anti knaves, deposing
and saving, "from such I got It and
to such I give It."
I prefer the late Bussell Wage's sys
| tern of colinseittig with a lawyer. It
1 Is re lated that he laid a case In detail
i before a high-priced attorney and was
■ assured by that worthy that he had a
! sure case—he Just couldn't lose. *I
thank you very much,” said Mr. Sage,
i "I gave you the oilier fellow's side of
It. You have saved me some costly
i lltigat'lon.”
I attended recently a reception given
to the supreme court of Michigan at
the Lawyers’ club In Detroit, and I ex
plained that my relations with that
august tribunal had neen most satis
factory because I had never had any
relations with It. I reaffirmed my be
lief hi the Scriptures, where It Is writ
ten If any man take away thy coat give
him thy cloak, also—lt Is cheaper than
giving the care to a lawyer. And who
soever shall compel the© to go a mile,
go with him twain —It Is preferable to
going to the supreme court.
This Is one reason why I dissented
from the proposal of F’rlnters’ Ink that
a uniform statute against dishonest
advertising be enacted.
The other was a matter of profes
sional pride and professional experi
ence. I did not want It to come to pass
that the fourth estate was made honest
by statutory enactment. I know from
experience that a dally newspaper can
keep Itself unspotted from advertising
fraud if It wants to.
It Is Just a matter of exercising the
same care In protecting the health and
\ TIRED SOCIETY TRIES THE
WINTER SPORTS OF CHILDHOOD
With all its wealth and power high
society is compelled to turn to the
simple games of childhood to shake
off the ennui that luxury or useless
ness breeds.
The latest is coasting—minus the
hard work of pulling the sleigh back
fcmi' ♦ - • /
. - r~~T
>c I ijtfr hlT**!
to the top of the hill after a glide.
Society hitches Its sleds to a high
powered automobile which drags them
to the top of the bill.
One of the pictures above shows
Mrs. W. R. Betts riding on her hus
band's bac4t in a bob-sled race at
swagger Tuxedo pnrk, near New
York. The course is one mile long
and the Betts made It In one minute,
six and one-flfth seconds. Among
those who contested with them were
R. B. Hives. Miss Rose Kane, Miss
Helen Rogers, J. M. Rutherford. Miss
Helen Seton, Winthrop McKim. Mrs.
pooketbooks of its readers as every
well-regulated journal observes In
sparing Itself the penalty of a false
publication agulnst the reputation of
a citizen. There Is nothing Intricate
or baffling about It. The sources of
accurate Information are always at
hand; and In cases that are not entirely
clear, there Is that familiar editorial
guide-post. “When In doubt, don't.”
Man looketh upon the outward
things, but the Almighty and the au
ditor of the Association of American
Advertisers looks Into the innermost
recesses of the soul.
It la all right to send your sleepless
expert Into our midst to satisfy your
selves that our circulation Is Just what
we claim It to be; but I think you
should let us send our investigator in-
/ I
J. M. Rutherford and half a dozen
other fashionable Now Yorkers.
Another popular winter sport at
Tuxedo is skating, the escort propell
ing a sliding chair in which his lady
rides in comfort.
Bobsledding is one of the choice
winter games of society folks who
visit Switzerland in winter. Above
is a phtograph Just received, showing
the duchess of Marlborough toboggan
ing on the Wenger Alps. The duchess,
who was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Is
wearing a velvet hat, sweater, trous
ers and thick, woolen overshoes.
to your office, factory or laboratory to
Hatlsfy ourselves that your copy is Just
what it ought to be—providing we are
not able to settle that point without
an investigation.
Turn about Is fair play.
Wo have added to the editorial staff
of The Times an advertising editor.
He was a star man at Yale, studied
fiscal and fiduciary matters there. It
is a tradition that young men come
out of the great eastern universities
entirely unequipped for business-get
ting. We can guarantee that this grad
uate w'as a howling success as a busi
ness-loser, for us. He took a sort of
post-graduate course In the Cobalt
region, whose golden glorl** were so
rapturously chanted by Julian Haw
thorne: and his scent for Investment
chicanery was so keen that there was
never occasion for contrition In The
Times’ office when one magnificent
frame-up after another was brought to
light by the postal authorities. On
the contrary, we saved our investigat
ing readers thousands of dollars by
giving them the plain, unvarnished
truth about the enticing propositions
presented in the other Detroit papers;
The facts were always easy of access
In local banks, brokers' offices, crsdlt
and reporting agencies, as well as In
the standard financial publications.
Our advertising Investigator also
turned the searchlight upon the larg
est Installment house In the city,
showed how nefarious Its system of
substitution and switching was, how
merciless Its pound-of-flesh propensity
of Jerking beds from under smallpox
patients and stoves with fires in them
from humble kitchens in requltement
for a meagre unpaid Installment. De
spite pressure from its advertising
office and from the Chicago advertising
agency handling its mall order business
and from its attorneys, we continued
the revelations of Its extortionate and
relentless operations for the announced
period of a week, and then stopped
only because of the fact that hundreds
of complaints wo had asked for were
repetitions of the same old story.
The outcome of this publicity was
the elimination of the more flagrant
forms of chicanery on the part of this
“palace of Illusions.’’ But for The
Times the general public would never
have known how unreliable It was, for
It always started two phonographs
when ijatomora came In to air their
grievances Our advertising editor
thought the good old Jubilee refrain,
“Steal away, steal away,’* should have
been among the records, producing an
effect like the quick-witted passenger
brought shout during a frightful storm
at sea when he sought to reassure the
terror-stricken by starting a Vlctrola.
The very first selection that came out
was. “A Grave In the Deep."
It’s a gay life our advertising editor
has led, showing up friction heaters
and Florida lands, rotary engines and
rubber plantations. Not long ago a
prominent advertising ngoney of na
tional reputation sent all the Detroit
dnllles an order for 14,000 lines for the
Advanced Medical Science Cos., copy to
be furnished by the doctors when they
arrived with thHr wonderful Instru
ment for reading the Internal human
mechanism like an open book back
wards, from the appendix to the table
of contents
Every other Detroit newspaper took
the agency’s credit as a guarantee of
good fnith and began to run the two
column readers tinder heavy Gothic
captions claiming all kinds of miracu
lous results for the X-ray contrivance.
Our Investigator, in one reading of the
copy, found statement* so sadly at
variance with fundamental fact* of
medical practice that he held up the
copy; later he found from the records
that the "chief of staff’’ was not a reg
istered physician. He asked to have
the Advanced Medical Science Cos.
waited upon by a committee of local
physicians, which was refused. Then
lie sent The Times correspondent at
the t’ntverslty of Michigan—a husky
Athlete In the pink of condition—to be
oxamlncd. The advanced medical sci
entists haw through him, but not
through the trick. After getting the
first to on an examination and treat
ment fee of s?>•*. they found him In a*
cancerous condition and urged him to
lose no time In coming back with the
14ft for further attention. He came
back with a warrant for the fakers’
arrest on a charge of practicing with
out a certificate —but someone tipped
off the matter and they had lied with
their marvelous pnruphernallA—the
only thing of the kind In the world.
After The Times had told the story
of this miserable imposition, the paper
received an appeal from a poor man
out In the state asking our assistance
to recover the |?fi that had been
hlrlied from him through the advertis
ing In the eoltimn* of our contempor
aries. It Is too bad there Isn’t a
scan hlight that can he turned In on
newspaper offices to reveal Just how
loatbesotne Is this process of exploit--
Ing their trustful and unfortunate
readers.
Just now our Yale alumnus Is delv
ing deep Into the magic properties of
Or. Hercules Panrhe’s "Oxydonor,” alias
nickel-plated gas pipe charged with
charcoal and sulphur, hermetlcally
setled and sporting a yard or more of
electric cord. The cord attached to the
ankle of the patient upon retiring,
banishes all maladies; they fly as «
thief In the night. Eminent practltlon.
era and chemists tell us that this beau
tiful little cylinder, price IIS. Is as
efficacious as a cold potato tied to the
pedal extremity or a specific for a
ringworm on g woodsn-leg
Yet the circulation manager brought
the sad news that half a hundred sub
scribers had left us because we made
light of the hasting virtues of this ben
efaction to mankind IT# looked Into
this and found a possible explanation
of tht resentment In the fast that the
owners of the magical tubse wars rant-
Ing them to tholv afflicted neighbors
for a month, h’oine system this for I
getting testimonials and lusty cham
pions of the baldest kind of a fake.
I have gone Into the adventures of
our advertising editor to this extent to
prove it is quite i»ossible for any me
tropolitan newspaper to protect its
pagea from everything savoring of de
ception and charlantanry. And It Is
not only his plain business obligation
to do this, but It Is in harmony with
the highest ideals of the publisher,
namely, to be of service to his fellows.
Beneath the inurk of this night how
many sad hearts, how many blighted
lives a great city like this holds—how
many that have felt the hurt and pain
of contact with defeat, poverty and
disappointment. You see It In the tense
feature* of ni*n and the tired eyes of
frail women. Doss the sight of these
care - encumbered fellow - creatur e s
awaken only helpless sympathy and
soft, unavailing pity?
I say It should send us to our own
place determined to do our work more
and more in the spirit of Justice- and
brotherhood toward all who walk the
earth —the advertiser to vow he shall
offer for sale nothing that Is not sanc
tioned by the only true test of a fair
exchange, service for service; the oub-
Usher to vow that the struggle of his
people for health and happiness Is not
to be hampered by the admission of
the spurious or the sinister to his col
umns.
This Is the struggle that provides a
moral equivalent for the heroiams of
war. You remember the pointed ques
tion of the Fourth of July orator —
“Gentlemen, did you ever have any war
experience—-outside of your Immediate
families?" 1 aay to you. publishers, did
you ever have any war experience In
side of your Immediate calling? Ever
have the messengers return with tid
ings of dismay? How this out
post has fallen. this bastion si- t
lsnced? How this engagement has
gone against you or that your ad
vance has been out off by reason of the
loss of 10-lnch. 10-tnch or 60-lnch
guns (at regular card rates), not cap
tured but vlelded voluntarily under the
higher code of warfare? Have you
noticed the ammunition and the rations
runulng low as pay-day drew near,
while the advertisers and agencies
recognised the Independence of the
adversary?
Wen, if you have, you will agree
with me that peace hath her combats
that try the soul no less than war.
school"teacher turns
, OUT TO BE LIVE WIRE
Csb(lxm4 from Page Oao.
11188," one of them suggested. He
seema to have raised some sort of a
row at Princeton.”
"Nothin* to it," another replied.
"He knows that school game; he don’t
know anything about politics. Be
sides, If he gets cocky, we’ll dangle
the presidency under his nose and
he’ll behave."
So the bossee nominated Woodrow
WUson. Almost Immediately Wilson
went out and began telling the people
that the bosses were bad Indians and
that the first thlpg to do in the
reformation of the state was to kick
the bosses out.
Wilson was piling up a few thous
and votes or so every day with this
line of converse—and Bmlth was try
ing to quiet the gajig by telling them
it was nothing but pre-election guff
for vote-getting purpose s—when
George I* Record a progressive Re
publican of Newark, propounded to
the candidate his now famous list of
questions. For the purpose of putting
WUson in a hole and showing him to
be the candidate of the Democratic
"Overlords" —Smith and his crown—
Record wrote Wilson a letter. Wilson
had been hammering the "Board of
Guardians’’—the Republican bosses—
and Record thought he’d paralyze Wil
son with this (among other) ques
tions: ;
"Wherein do the relations to the
special Interests of such leaders (the
Board of Guardians) differ from the
relations to the same Interests of such
Democratic leaders as Smith, Nugent
and Davis?*’
Answer —"They differ from the oth
ers In this, that they are In control of
the government of the state while the
others are not and cannot be if the
Democratic ticket is elected."
"And cannot be if the Democratic
ticket ia elected! "Don’t you Imagine
that gave Jim Smith a shock? But
that wasn’t all. Here was another
question:
"Do you admit that the boss system
exists as I have described it? If so,
Low do you propose to abolish it?
Here was his answer to that.
"Os course I admit it. Its exist
ence is notorious. I have made it my
business for years to observe and un
derstand that system, and I hate it as
thoroughly as I understand -t. You
are quite right in saying that the sys
tem is bi-partisan, that it has virtual
ly destroyed representative govern
ment and In Its place set up a govern*
ment of privilege. I would propose to
abolish It by the above reforms (pri
mary law. corrupt practices law,
equal taxation and public service com
mission), by the election to office of
SAN ER&N CISCD .
Premier Train
to California
From Union Passenger Station, Chicago, every
evening at 8:30; arrives Ssn Francisco 2:10 p. m.
third day—6B hours of solidj comfort enroute*
over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
Union Pacific Southern Pacific Line
Electric lighted throughout—has library observation
car. drawing-room, compartment and standard sleep
ing cars and through dining car.
The China and Japan Mail —another electric
lighted train via same route leaves Chicago daily
at 9:50 p. m.
Dtimfitrw Cm/ijtrmm ittermturt mmJ full ii/kosms
may 4# teemrta frem
H. W. STIINHOFF, Michigan Passenger Agent.
212 Majestic Bldg- Detroit.
F. A. MILLER, rantfil fHMMvr Aavnt. CHICAGO
Skin On Fire ?
Just the mild, simple weak, the well
kuown D. D. D. Prescription for Rt
zuma, and the Itch is gene.
A 25-cent bottle will prove It.
We have sold other remedies fo>
skin trouble but none that w« oouta
guarantee as we can the D. D. D ‘
remedy. If the first regular size
SI.OO bottle does not do exactly as
we say. it will not cost you a cent.
Central Drug Company.
men who will refuse to submit to n.
and by pitiless publicity.”
But there was still more agony sot
Smith & Cos. Another question was;
"Does the Democratic platform de
clare for the choice of candidates for
all elective offices by the direct vote
system?"
Note the answer:
"Yes, I so understand it. If It does
not, 1 do."
Yet here was the shot that gave
Smith, Davis and Nugent nervous
prostration:
Question —"I join you In condemn
ing the Republican Board of Guar
dians. Will you Join me ia de
nouncing the Democratic Overlords
as parties to the eame political sys
tem?"
Answer —"Certainly, I will join you
or anyone else in denouncing and
fighting any and every one. of either
party, who attempts such outrages
against the government and public
morality."
The Record letter—and the candi
date's bullseye answers to Us 19
questions —elected Woodrow Wilson
governor. He was clamorously inaug
urated early In January—and the nezt
morning Smith, Nugent and Davis
started for Trenton, still cherishing
the fond hope that the governor didn’t
really mean all thoee crasy, pre-eles
tion promises.
(In his fourth artlole. Newman tells
how Wilson kicked the bosses out of
the state house and broke the record
for rapid-fire enactment of progressive
legislation.)
!
“MARSE HENRY” AT OLD
TRICKS, SAYS S. W. BEAKES
"Col. Henry Watterson, who is In
the limelight on account of his at
tacks on Gov. Woodrow WUson, has
always been one of the most pic
tursque figures in politics," said S. W.
Beakes, secretary of the Woodrow
Wilson league for Michigan. "During
the campaign for Cleveland in 1892,
Waterson came to Ann Arbor to speak
for Cleveland In spite of the fact that
he had bitterly opposed him for ths
nomination. I had a talk with him just
before the meeting and he launched
his whole abundant flow of vitupera
tive language at Cleveland, but a few
minutes later he went out and deliv
ered a strong campaign speech In
favor of Cleveland, full of praise for
his achievements. I do not believe
that the attacks that he is making on
Woodrow Wilson will have any more
effect upon Wilson’s success than his
attacks on Cleveland had In 1892."
•LAWYERS WANT STATE
CAPITOR ENLARGED
| The Wayne County Bar association
lias Joined with tne Michigan Bar as
sociation, the Grand Rapids, Kalama
zoo. Marquete. Calhoun and Genesee
associations in an effort to have the
next legislature provide funds for the
enlarging of the state cipitol in Uin
sing. It claimed that because of the
cramped quarters in whicli the su
ipreme court ia housed, that legal busi
ness is greatly hampered and deluyed.
At the present lime, it cost« the state
about SIO,OOO a year rent for offices
outside the capitol, and the supreme
: court justices are scattered in differ
ent buildings. The lawyers will urge
upon the legislature the erection of a
new wing.
«
AGED MAN’S LIFE IS
GROUND OUT BY CAR
i James M. Crawford, 87 years old.
father of the wife of Patrolman
George M. Wight, was killed by a
Fourtoenth-ave. car, at Kenilworth
snd Oakland-aves., about 6 o’clock,
Wednesday night. His skull was frac
tured. He was alive when picked up,
but died a couple of hours later in
Harper hospital. The fatality occur
red while the aged man was on his
way from the Wight home. No. 246
Kenilworth-ave., where he had been
living since the death of his wife in
Warren, Mich., two years ago. to a
store in the neighborhood for some
lobseco. He was a G. A. R. .veteran.
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