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'T.?.B LARGEST CIRCULATION
Of y Cass County Paper.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1900.
KEFUBLICAN TICKKT.
National.
' For President
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
- For Vice President
" . THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
For Presidential ETcctoTS
. J. T. NESIilT of Burt. v
' R. B. WINDHAM of Cass.
ED ROYCE of Custer.
L. M. HAGUE ol Kearney.
V. DAVIUSON of Johnson.
' ' L. JACOBSON of Douglas. f-
", J. L. KENNEDY of Douglas. .
JOHN L. LANGER of Saline.
Con(freeHlonaI.
For Congress. First District
E. J. BURKETT of Lancaster.
State.
For Governor
C. H. DIETRICH of Adams,
i For Lieutenant Governor
F. P. SAVAGE of Custer.
For Secretary of State . ",'
G. W. MARSH of Richardson.
For Treasurer
WILLIAM STEUFFER of Cuming.
For Auditor
CHARLES WESTON of Sheridan.
Far Commissioner
GEORGE D. FOLLMER of Nuckolls.
For Attorney General
F.N. PROUT of Gage.
I For State Superintendent
V. K. FOWLER of Washington.
County.
For County Attorney.
JESSE L. ROOT, of Plattsmouth.
For Commissioner. First district,
LLOYD D. BENNETT, of Plattsmouth.
Legislative.
For Senator,
WILLIAM H. NEWELL. oLPlattsmouth.
ForJRepresentatives,
MARTIN L, FR1EDRICH.'
RICHARD WILKINSON.
Float Representative,
DAVID A. BROWN, of Otoe.
You cannot afford to miss Congress
man Burkett's epeech thi9 evening at
Waterman hall.
" It begins to look as though there
would be a greater landslide to Mo
Kinley in 1900 than in 1896.
At a mock presidential election at
the University of Wisconsin, to con
tinue two days, the first days vote
stood, McKinley, 336; Bryan, 75; Wool
ey, 6; Debs, 2.
TJIE Travis-Kawls debate in this
city next Thursday evening gives
promise of being well attended. Every
body seems anxious to see how it's go
ing to "come out."
SlKCE our townsman, Andy Taylor,
has been to Canada and investigated
the Benwell matter and succeeded in
securing several interviews with the
ifiurderer of Matt Akeson, the story
circulated about his dying three days
after reaching home won't go.
Twenty-one thousand voters have
registered in Omaha and South Omaha,
15,524 of which haVo given their party
IXUp i ii HU1J 3 U3 inJILI I Ljmunuuu.
This gives the republicans a majority
of 741 over all who havo other party
affiliations or have no party affiliations
at all. -
The blackest lies over told on any
man are being circulated by some
fusionists for the purpose of defeating,
if possible, C. II. Dietrich for governor.
Governor 1'oynter's record has been
disgraceful and they know it, and in
order to bolster him up they have
adopted the plan of blackmailing the
republican candidate.
"The strike of the anthracite coal
miners of Pennsylvania is finally at an
end, and the boys ex poet to resume
work Monday. The justice of the de
mands of the miners hns been apparent
from the beinnin?. and thev are to be
congratulated on winning such a vic
tory. They did not get all for which
they asked, but enough so it would bo
unwise to hold out longer at this time.
George L. Dobson, Iowa's secre
tary of state, is said to be making the
most sensible ' and business-like
SDeeches of any one campaigning in
this state. Ho prefers to talk to labor
ing men, having been one himself. Ar
rangements had been made for him to
speak in Plattsmouth next Monday
evening, but on account of the open
ing of The Parmele, was changed to
Tuesday. He desires to address me
railroad men especially at that time.
Mr. Dobson is to speak , at Havelock,
McCook and other railroad points, be
ing a general favorite with the boys.
If the republican vote is gotten out
the state will doubtless go for McKin
ley. If republicans are in earnest and
believe it would be for their material
interests to keep the present adminis
tration In power they should not hesi
tate a moment about putting in a full
day at the polls. No man should de
pend on some one else to do his share
of the work. If the re-election of Mc
Kinley means anything at all it means
enough that there isn a farmer or a
laboring man in Cass county who could
not well afford to epend the entire day
at the polls working to .that .end.
Please do not depend upon a half dozen
LAiiOK LKAUEK OKSEKTS 'BRYAN.
Mark LT. Crawford, former president
of.' the International Typographical
Union, tells why he cannot support the
fusion leader:
-I have voted the democratic ticket
i-ince I had a vote. With much men
i .1 reservation I followed the party in
itd declaration that the civil war was
a failure; its opposition to specie pay
ment; its greeobackism, its 'tariff for
revenue only,' and last but not least,
its '16 to 1' heresy. But I must de
cline to take another dose of '16 to 1'
nnd 'imperialism' and shall vote the
republican lickat.
"On 'Looking Backward' I am im
pressed with the feeliag that the war
was not a failure; that specie payment
not only came but came to stay; that
groenbackism was only the result of
indigestion; that we tried 'tariff for
revenue only' to our sorrow.
"Four years ago when the business
of the couotry w.-.s paralyzed, when
large armies of honest, unemployed
men were tramping the country seek
ing work, when souphouses had to be
established all over the couotry to
prevent starvation, Mr. Bryan said to
these hungry i o iple: 'There is noend
to the. cold st intlard. You think you
have suffered enough; your suffering
has just begun. You think there has
been enough depression, but depress
ion has but just, commenced.' He
failed to say that it was a democratic
administration that bad caused the
suffering. If the last four years are a
sample of iho 'suffering' we are to have
under a gold standard, I for one am
ready and willing to 'suffer.' "
NOT to talk money.
Just as Mr. Bryan was closing his
speech at Washington Park, N. J.,
some one in the distance held up a sil
ver dollar. Mr. Bryan saw it and said:
"I notice a gentleman over there hold
up a silver dollar, and he evidently
wants to know something about silver.
Ifwill remind him that his desire to
hear something about money and noth
ing about human rights illustrates the
sordid level upon which the republic
an party is fighting this campaign. V
The fusion candidate is evidently be
coming very, very sensitive, about sil
ver and seems to forget that he men
tioned the matter himself in 1896, and
did not consider himself on the "sordid
level" of a republican either.
Jl'DOE N'ewkll says that so far as
his record J,n the state senate is con
cerned he has nothing to take back
SENATOR A. R. TALBOT ON
JUDGE NEWELL'S RECORD.
'My Dear Senator: I hope you do not think that I thought yon
were at all cranky in your efforts to protect the state, as' you saw
your luty. No senator ever went out of the senate to bis home with
any more regard or respect due him than yourself, and your record
made In the senate is an enviable one. I congratulate you and the
people of Cass upon the success you attained as a senator, and among;
the entire list of senators I know of no one whose friendship I es
teem more than Senator Kewell of Cass. I watched your course
constantly, and feel that the state was honored In your service, and
In your friendship I feel a just personal pride."
Tho above is taken from a letter, dated at Lincoln, April
10,.1S99, just a few weeks after the legislature ad j urned. Mr.
Talbot, it will be remembered, was president of the senate,
and was familiar with the acts of each and every one of its
members.. Senator Newell found it nicessary to oppose tho
Fenator from Lancaster on several important measures, hence
the foregoing to the judge.
and no apologies to make. Every
v.oter in Ci9s county knows or can find
out how he voted on United States sen
ator two yours ago. The fusionists at
tempted to tell you then how the judge
wouid vot, and they are at the same
old dodge toilay. Mr. Newell carries
out the wishes of . tho people just as
nearly aa he possibly c in, and if you
will go to the trouble of looking up the
merits and demerits of the various
bills mentioned by one or-two of our
fusion friends you find Mr. Newell
voted all right Some of the bills were
introduced for political buno mbe,some
for the purpose of delaying or blocking
oiher legislation, while others, while
good in tho m;iin, had features that
were altogether bad. Look up Judge
Newell't rccoid carefully boforo you
criticize him. It will stand the test.
A Birthday l'any.
Saturday evening a party of friends
of Thomas Koppel called at" his home
to assist him in celebrating bis birth
day anniversary. Social games, danc
ing, etc., were indulged in and a gen
eral good social time enjoyed by all.
Those present were Misses Mnry
O'Neil, Nell Roberts, Alma Timm,
Alma Goos, Olga Timm, Kate Richel,
Alma Richel, Ora Moore, Emma Goos,
Minnie Ilerold, Julia McElroy, Gertie
Fassbender, Anna Keppel and Messrs.
James O'Neil, Otto Wrurl,Ed Guthman,
Walter Cummins, Peter Eikhoff, Have
lock: Richard Stultz. Arthur Criss-
man, Thomas Keppel and Mrs. Jane
irkham.
An Auillrnce or Thirteen.
A special from Eigle to the State
Journal 8iys: "Saturday evening a
populist speaker, advertised to deliver
a lecture in E :glo on the cause of the
fall of prices of farm products during
the years of 1870, 1871, 1873 and 1873,
ust a fair-sized audience gathered in
the opera house. The speaker, how
ever, was not a success, tie aid not
ave his subject well in hand nor was
he able to interest his sulience.- The
people gradually tired of hearing him
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and when be nnany conciuueu um
speech exactly thirteen persons were
in
the hall besides himself, and some
of
them were republicans."
Wanted Girl for. general house
work. Apply to Mrs. W, W. Coates.
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Governor Poynter Pardons Mur
' dcrer Kearns Under Suspi
v cious Circumstances.
The Cm . County Murderer, XArlng la
OttSwa, Canada, Telle Hie Story.
Omaha, Oct 29. In no Instance has
the pardoning power of the governor
been more shamefully abused than by
Governor Poynter in pardoning John
Benwell Kearns, the murderer of Mat
thew Akeson of Cass county. With the
facts relating to this most awful crime,
shocking in its brutality, most of the
people of Nebraska are familiar, but
there are few who are aware of the
fact that Kearns was pardoned under
very suspicious circumstances, cir
cumstances indicative of shameful coi
luslon, if not downright fraud.
Governor Poynter pardoned Kearns
on the claim that he was "dying," but
it now develops that Kearns is living
in Ottawa, Canada, and is in perfect
health. Sixteen months have elapsed
since the brutal murderer of old man
Akeson was clandestinely and secretly
released from the penitentiary and
sent home to die," but he is not only
not dead, but is working every day and
has been for the last ten months and
is, as shown by the following dispatch
from Ottawa, in perfect physical con
dition. 0
GOOD TIME ALLOWED.
Perhaps the most glaring imposition
is the allowance of "good time" to a
prisoner sentenced for life. This is an
Irregularity, an inconsistency, a dis
crepancy so difficult of mathematical
calculation and logical analysis that it
is passed up to Governor Poynter for
an explanation. Is it not a fact that
the "good time" allowed was allowed
so that the convict might be released
about two years before even the end of
the commuted sentence, seven years
a lid six mouths? Kearns was sen
tenced for life, Governor Poynter com
muted his sentence to seven years and
six months and then, to make matters
worse, reduced his term more than
two years by allowing him "good
time." In other words, the perpe
trator of one of the most deliberate
and cold-blooded murders . ever com
mitted, who was tried, convicted and
sentenced for life was turned loose
by Governor Poynter inside of five
years afterward. Kearns was re
leased from the penitentiary while the
soil was yet fresh on the grave of his
victim. What inspired such an act on
the part of Governor Poynter Is a mys
tery which the "certificates" of the
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warden and physician do not satisfac
torily solve. Kearns himself says that
he had no thought of securing a pur
don until Warden Leidigh broached
the subject to him. Kearns said that
at the least he estimated that he
would not be able to secure recogni
tion in the way of clemency for ten
years. He knew upon what charge he
was convicted and reasonably com
puted his penalty on the sentiment of
society and the exactions of law and
order. He knew he had committed a
monstrous crime and it Is no wonder
that he had spent five years behind
the bars and expected to serve five
more before he himself could In his
mind Justify his right to relief. He
knew, too, that his partner, narry
Hill, no more guilty than he, paid the
penalty with his life. Knowing all
this he had no reason to expect, and
did not expect, to gain bis freedom
inside of ten years at best. .
Just what caused Warden Leidigh
and the prison physician to take such
an interest In securing a pardon for
Kenrns, before he had ever asked for
or expected It, is unknown. Why he
was pardoned by Governor Toynter se
cretly and clandestinely, without no
tice being given the people of Cass
county before the pardon was granted
as required by law. allowed "good
time"' nnd hurried out of the state, is
also n mystery. The murderer had
wealthy relatives and It is presumable
at least that they had something to do
with securing his release.
Kearns says If his pardon was
bought and paid for he does not know
ft. though he admits that a wealthy
friend from Montana named Brown
came to Lincoln and perhaps "inter
ceded" for him. Keana has two
uncles in Montana in tho mlnine bus
iness. Patrick and MIc inel Kearns.
wno are reputed to be wealthy and it
Is possible that the Mr. "Brown" was
none other than Patrick or Michael
Kearns.
Governor Toynter attempts to play
upon sympathy by saying that Kearns
was dying and that In stach cases "hu
manity usually dictated that the pris
oner be sent home to die."
Did humanity dictate when poor, eld
Matthew Akeson was cruelly murder
ed In the presence and before the eyes
of his own family? Was it any less
human for Kearns, with his hands
steeped In the blood of an aged and
helpless victim, to die in the peniten
tiary than It was fer Matthew Akeson,
who thrpughput his 60 years of life
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had never, wronged a child 'and who
was universally esteemed as " a good
citizen, to die by the hand of a brutal
murderer In his own home?
Did humanity dictate to Kearns.
when for the purpose of robbery, he
entered the Akeson home and shot
down helpless victims?
Governor Poynter misjudges public
sentiment when he assumes to placate
and.aDpeafsp It with any such excuse.
Had Kearns been dying and the governor
knew of his own personal knowledge
that such was his condition, he might
have paroled him on the condition that
he be re-Imprisoned if he reeaind his
ttealth. But according to Kearns' owr
words. Governor Poynter knew noth
ing of his condition and the result Is
that Instead of Kearns "going home
to die," he is as healthy appearing to
day as any man in the great cirj of
Ottawa, as the following dispatch from
that place clearly shows.
The statements made by Kearns
were made to A. B. Taylor of Platts
feieuth, who went to Canada and 6aw
and talked with Kearns. Mr. Taylor
was bailiff In the court at Plattsmouth
when Kearns was tried and had charge
of the prisoner during the trial. Mr.
Taylor is one of the oldest and most
respected citizens of Cass county and
any one who doubts that Kearns is
alive and well will be convinced to the
contrary by consulting Mr. Taylor.
Following is the dispatch:
MURDERER TELLS HIS STORY.
" Ottawa, Ont, Oct 17. Without even
a blush upon his cheek or tremor of
his lip, John Benwell Kearns, mur
derer of Matthew Akeson of Cass
county, Nebraska, today told the story
of that shocking tragedy and the story
concerning the manner In which he
was released from the penitentiary.
Kearns resides here at 41 Lyon
street with his parents, who keep a
boarding house. He' is employed as
a bookkeeper in the leather and har
ness store conducted by S. & II. Bor
brldge, 88 Rideau street. He has been
employed there over five months, qual
ifying himself in a local commercial
college beforehand. He was pardoned
out of the ienitentiary May 23, 1899,
and "sent home to die," but of the 16
months he has been free he has de
voted ten months to nienfal and physi
cal labor and today is as healthy ap
pearing as any man in this city of GO,
000 people; tall, erect and in fine physi
cal proportion. Nothing is known here
of his history in Nebraska. The fam
ily guard his record with utmost care.
When Kearns' household was visited
last night persistent inquiry failed to
elicit any Information concerning the
identity of the murderer. Kearns ad
mitted that he had been away to th
states, but denied ever having been
In Nebraska. Despite the denials the
different members of the family ap
peared to be nervous about something
and this was what enkindled a very
remote ember of hope in the matter of
solving the mystery.
INVESTIGATION TROVES FACT.
The investigation was renewed bright
and early this morning and diligent
efforts, in which assistance was ren
dered by Detective Foster and Chief
Sherwood of the Dominion police, re
sulted in such an array of evidence
that Mrs. Kearns, mother of the mur
derer, finally acknowledged that he
was the man.
"I have tried to keep the whole thing
a secret from the public," she said,
"but I see you have the facts pretty
well In hand. John is working right
along and has a good job."
"How did he happen to get par
doned? was asked.
"I really don't know. I never asked
for It and I' don't know who did. He
used to work for a rich man named
Brown in Montana, but I do not
know whether he helped him out or
not. Yes, I heard that it was reported
back in the states that he bought his
pardon. I don't know anything about
it. The first I knew he was in prison
was when I got a letter stating he was
there and was sentenced for three
years. I wrote to mm aoout two
years later and asked him. if he was
soon to be out and he then wrote me
he was sentenced for life. lie mis
represented the facts to me in his first
letter.""
"Do you mean to say that you alone
of the family know of his trouble?"
No; his father knows about it and
he put in part of the money to pay his
way from there here. Nobody else
here in Ottawa knows about It and
I hope nobody else will."
DECLINES TO DISCUSS PARDON.
When asked how she heard that the
report was In circulation that he
bought his pardon she ceuld not Bay,
though it is evident that she has been
advised by somebody at Lincoln as to
certain conditions and further advised
to refrain from talking on this subject.
She admlted receiving a letter from
Governor Poynter last Juno asking
her to furnish a physician's certificate
as to her son's health, but she failed
to comply with the request, ostensibly
for fear the secret would get out, but
in reality because the "dying man"
was in excellent health and was at
work.
KEARNS TELLS HIS STORY. ,
John Kearns. the son, after learning
that further efforts to hide his Iden
tity were useless, made a signed state
ment in substance as follows: "I was
pardoned out of the penitentiary May!
o, x&wj. j. uuu ueeu sic prior io iui
time, but was convalescing at the time
I was pardoned. I was kept In the
hospital p to the time I was released,
but I was up and around four weeks
before. Of course, as long as they let
me stay there I would have been a fool
to have asked to go back to the cell.
"Who interceded for you or asked
for j'onr pardon?."
"I do not know. Brown of Montana
was down to see me once, but I don't
know whether he made any special
effort to get me out."
"Is is not a fact that Brown's money
Inspired your pardon?"
LEIDIGH SUGGESTED IT TO HIM.
"I could not say. 1 know that there
was considerable talk about prisoners
getting out through influence and the
use of money, but I can't say in my
case. Warden Leidigh is the first man
that ever mentioned pardon to me. I
get one until a tew weeks before I
got Ik Governor Toynter did not see
me but once after I was convicted and
that was one day when he was there
on a visit He did not know of his
oersonal knowledge what - mr condi
tion was at the time I was pardoned.
"Leidigh had a good pull with him
and he helped me out I wrote a let
ter thanking them both on reaching
here. I was released late In the afttr
noon and was taken to the depot la
a carriage. They bought me a ticket
through to Ottawa and I lost no time
In getting away. At Chicago I bought
a suit of clothes and sold my prison
suit to a second-hand dealer.
"I had a good appetite the last four
weeks I was in the penitentiary hos
pital and was getting on my feet when
I got out My hemorrhages stopped
long before I was pardoned and I have
never had any since," he said, with a
squint of the eye.
"You are a pretty rugged looking
corpse," was remarked.
"Yes, I am in pretty fair shape.
though I don't feel exactly llk my
former self."
"Is that not due to worriment and
thoughts about the awful crime you
committed?"
"Well, there are some things that
worry me aside from the condition of
my health. Of them I would rather
not speak."
"When did you last hear from Ne
braska?"
"About 12 weeks ago, - Mother got
a letter from Governor Poynter, lu
which he asked for a physician's cer
tificate. She tore the letter np, or I
would show it to you. She asked me
what to do about it and X told her to
do the best she could for him, for I
thought he wanted to use It In poll-
tics, and as he had helped me out I
wanted to help him out Mother an
swered the letter, but I think the cer
tificate was never sent I have worked
steadily for over five months since I
got a job and have not lost a day. As
to the pardon, I can only say that I
owe my success in regaining my lib
erty to Leidigh and Governor Poynter.
How or why the scheme to get me a
pardon started before I or any of my
relatives asked for one I cannot ex
plain. It may have started while I
was sick, but at the time It was grant
ed I was recovering rapidly. If thre
was such a thing as money used to get
It it was without my knowledge. No
doubt such things have been done at
that same place, but I can't say It was
In my case."
"How did you happen to give your
name as Benwell when you were ar
rested?"
"The other fellow gave the name of
Harry Hill. That was not his right
name. Noticing that he gave a wrong
name I gave one too. I knew, how
ever, that if I was caught at it that
an alias would make It hard for me.
so I gave my name as John Benwell
Kearns. When you came to the house
last evening I thought that you want
ed me for some railroad job. While I
was in the penitentiary a railroad de
tective had me connected with a job
that had been done and I expected
you intended to prosecute me should
I ever get out
"When I got out It was so arranged
that nobody should know it and my
first thought last night was that he
had followed me up. I was more in
terested In keeping my Identity a se
cret on that account than on account
of notoriety.
"I have nothing to say about the
Cass county affair," came the reply
when asked about it "I was con
victed, sent to the penitentiary and
pardoned. That is the story of
record and that Is all the story I'll
give you. I am a free man, and I
hope to get along as if nothing of the
kind had ever happened. I will forget
It whether other people do or not"
WHAT THEY THINK OF KEARNS
"There goes a man with strong and
dangerous criminal instincts," remark
ed Detective Foster, one of the shrewd
est officers of the Dominion ef Canada,
as Kearns left the room. "I think so
ciety is better off wltheut such char
acters. Look at his firm Jaw, low fore
head and cat-like eyes. I'll watch that
man from this on, that s certain." It
is evident from Kearns' conversation
that he did not tell 'all he knew In con
nection with the pardon. It is quite
evident that the murder of old man Ake
son is not the only crime which con
cerns him. That he committed other
crimes for which he has never atoned
er been apprehended is quite certain.
Nevertheless he dresses well, leoks
trim as a successful stock broker and
outside of bis family. Chief Sherwood
and Detective Foster nobody here in
Ottawa knows any of his dark history.
He weighs about 180 pounds and Is a
perfect picture of the ideal athlete
Kearns incidentally spoke of affairs
connected with the management of
the penitentiary, and said that officials
and attaches smuggled In opium.
whisky and morphine to certain In
mates and sold it to them. It Is a
common thing, he said, for them to
take money away from prisoners, and
while the law is that this money
should go into the library fond most
of it went into pockets of officials and
employes.
IT IS BOGUS.
Frank Carpenter, first vice president
of the Anti-Saloon League, and a
member of the Carpenter Paper com
pany of Omaha, one of the largest con
cerns of this kind in the west when
asked if the league had authorized
Thomas Darnall to issue and send eat
circulars urging temperance voters to
vote against Charles H. Dietrich, said:
"Positively no. On the ether band I
consider Mr. Dietrich an honest and
thorough business man and a very
good citizen. He would make an ex
cellent governor."
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$3.75 to $20.00
Our . .
Nobby Youth's Suits
$2.90 to $15.00
Our . .
Elegant Child's Suits
$1.25 to $6.50
Will you come and smile
with us? .
Elson. the Clothier,
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Plattsmouth,
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F IT IS ANYTHING IN . .
Queensware,
Glassware,
Chinaware,
Dinner Sets,
Toilet Sets, Liiiiils
you are looking- for, remember that
Bennett 8l Ttttt
have the finest line ever brought to the city. '
Remember also that their stock of . .
QKOCKHIKS
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Leonard Block,
Reliability in Vehicles
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.Buggies,
Road and Spring Wagons.
See our Racine Buggies the
buggies in large lots and get
also sell them reasonable.
HancL-MadiG Harness
Genuine
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Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
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Our Hat deparlment is
complete.
Our Gloves and mitts, 5
to $2.00.
Our Shirts and Drawers
for 45 are daisies.
Our Boot and Shoe de
partments are also full.
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Plattsmouth
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Carriages..
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Oak-Tanned Leather.