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Memories for April 25, 2017

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April 19, 1917

In 1917, as this year, there was the usual debate as to whether or not to plant potatoes. One Malta man was quoted as saying he meant to but after reading up on the subject he found potatoes were planted on hills and all of his land was plumb flat.

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Big news of the week was the arrest in Chicago of Rev. L.J. Christler, who was picked up by a Secret Service man immediately after having given a restaurant man a Liberty head nickel on which the head had been altered to resemble Kaiser Wilhelm. Christler was unable to explain where he had acquired the coin but con...

 

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