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The Marion Daily Mirror, 1907-01-01
The front page of 1907-01-01. 221 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.
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PLAYED A SMOOTH GAME Represented He was to te Married and had a Check Cashed. Akiou, O, .Inn. 1. An unknown iiinu winked the livery men of this city to perfection. Ho visited all of the utahles yesterday and an nounced th'.it he wns to bo -tnnriioil this morning nt ,'112 15owery-sf. " am to be 'married at S o'clock and I M like n couple of cabs at my home at that time" he told the liv livery - ery livery men.- ' At the appointed hour .in tho morning eight or ten cabs drove to the "appointed house. The cab men pa'iently .utMipou dheir boxes robujnj'lijudiour iefpro'jfmVvOt t i 1 1 Impiiites. "Whole's the 'u asked. "What bride? There's no wed wedding - ding wedding heio," the woman at the door tcplit'd. Then the cortege lelieated. Afterward it was discovered that the would-be biidegiooiii had pre presented - sented presented a check fo'- $'M) nt the livery h.iins and offend to jiay for tho cab0', for which he was charged $S whoie two cab, were ordered. At Hiram .Iackou'.s bam the check was accepted and W iu change was i in leturn given 4,000,000 CHINESE SAID TO BE STARVING Peking, Jan. I.- Owing to the ex cessive rains and consequent failure of tho crops the fanilno in tlio north
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