The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 143Atlantic Monthly Company, 1929 - American essays |
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... Salem possessed a dis- proportionate number of merchants . The trade parceled out among them was meagre , and in less than a year Offutt abandoned his venture . James Rutledge took back the rented mill , and Offutt , in Lincoln's phrase ...
... Salem possessed a dis- proportionate number of merchants . The trade parceled out among them was meagre , and in less than a year Offutt abandoned his venture . James Rutledge took back the rented mill , and Offutt , in Lincoln's phrase ...
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... Salem he had had access to books of law . The late Senator Beveridge tells us that he appeared from time to time in the court of the corpulent New Salem Justice of the Peace , Bowling Green , to plead a case , and he possessed a book of ...
... Salem he had had access to books of law . The late Senator Beveridge tells us that he appeared from time to time in the court of the corpulent New Salem Justice of the Peace , Bowling Green , to plead a case , and he possessed a book of ...
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... Salem , she was in her twentieth year . Abundant testimony remains of her gentleness and the affection in which she was held by her friends and neigh- bors . She was the most popular and beautiful girl in New Salem , and before the ...
... Salem , she was in her twentieth year . Abundant testimony remains of her gentleness and the affection in which she was held by her friends and neigh- bors . She was the most popular and beautiful girl in New Salem , and before the ...
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