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Looking Back: Aug. 22, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

August 24, 1887
There are $339 million resting idly in the U.S. treasury doing no good to anyone. Two or three hundred million should be devoted to decreasing the national debt and saving interest.

Huldy Anderson, 2, and Ella Zimmerman, 1, died last week of scarlet fever.

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