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... four years . A. M. HAGGARD , A.M. , Corresponding Secretary of the Iowa Christian Convention , Ex - President of Oskaloosa College , Iowa . PROF . A. S. WRIGHT , A.M. , Of the Case School of Applied Science , Cleveland , Ohio . Graduate ...
... four years . A. M. HAGGARD , A.M. , Corresponding Secretary of the Iowa Christian Convention , Ex - President of Oskaloosa College , Iowa . PROF . A. S. WRIGHT , A.M. , Of the Case School of Applied Science , Cleveland , Ohio . Graduate ...
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... four o'clock in the morning , and studying until time for his tasks at the shop to begin , in order that he might keep up with his studies . His academic career was soon cut short by his pressing poverty , and then he worked hard by day ...
... four o'clock in the morning , and studying until time for his tasks at the shop to begin , in order that he might keep up with his studies . His academic career was soon cut short by his pressing poverty , and then he worked hard by day ...
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... four hours at a time without food , because of his great poverty ; of his efforts to pre- vent the theft of his invention ; of his oft - repeated and oft- denied prayer to Congress for aid to practically apply for public use his ...
... four hours at a time without food , because of his great poverty ; of his efforts to pre- vent the theft of his invention ; of his oft - repeated and oft- denied prayer to Congress for aid to practically apply for public use his ...
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... four dollars in ten hours ' work easier than he could forty years ago earn one dollar working from twelve to fifteen hours . The first month I worked after I was twenty- one years of age , I went into the woods , drove team , cut mill ...
... four dollars in ten hours ' work easier than he could forty years ago earn one dollar working from twelve to fifteen hours . The first month I worked after I was twenty- one years of age , I went into the woods , drove team , cut mill ...
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... four and a half millions . That purpose formed at the slave - pen in Washington was well carried out , not indeed as he had expected , but as God willed it . Climbing the Ladder of Success . JOHN C. DUEBER ,. 67 SINGLENESS OF AIM .
... four and a half millions . That purpose formed at the slave - pen in Washington was well carried out , not indeed as he had expected , but as God willed it . Climbing the Ladder of Success . JOHN C. DUEBER ,. 67 SINGLENESS OF AIM .
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