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Looking Back: Aug. 1, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

Aug. 6, 1887
The drought in this country, which extends throughout the great corn belt, is almost appalling.

It is not to be expected that the Democrats will acknowledge defeat in Kentucky. ..The Democrats are in an excitable state of mind, and six men have been killed and a score wounded in one fight already.

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