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They Want A Pension

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
September
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, Sept. 25.- The National Association of Ex-Prisoners of War concluded its i-riday. A report frora the Com-mittee on Pensions recommending the passage of a bilí giving all ex-prisoners of war two dollars íor each day they were in captivity, and placing them on the pension rolls at rates proportioned to the length of their conflnement, waa unanimously adopted. A resolution was also passed declaring th it the captured rebel flags should be he:d sacred by the National Government and displayed in. some public place, as provided by law. General W. H. Powell was elected president for the eneuing year. The next annual wiir be held at Indianapolis.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register