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Looking Back: October 31, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

November 2, 1887
Yesterday was the semimonthly payday at the Sycamore Preserve Works. Their payroll of late amounts to about $3,000 a month.

Mr. Charlie Brown has returned from his summer’s work in Montana. He brought with him a curiosity in the shape of the dried body of a papoose, which he discovered in a tree.

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