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Objected To The Draft

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the Mount Morris, 111., News: It is said on the Skaguay trail recently a dead man was picked up and from papers on nis person lt was found that he was from Maquoketa, Iƶwa. Word was sent to hls relatives there and they wrote back to have the remains cremated and forwarded as soon as possible. The body was taken to the nearest crematory, and after lt had been subjected to 5,000 degrees of heat for a couple of hours the door was opened to see how it was getting along. The heat had just got nlm well thawed out, and he yelled: "Shut off that cold draft! This is the only comfortable place I've struck since leaving Maquoketa."

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News