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Smith, Michael Hoke, 1855-1931 Kindhearted Mayor Collier and To Stop Filibustering

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02691.12.10 Author/Creator: Smith, Michael Hoke, 1855-1931 Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 24 October 1897 Pagination: 2 p. ; 12.5 x 58.5 cm. Order a Copy

Mayor Collier releases all prisoners with city offenses. In "to Stop Filibustering", the Spanish government wants to ask the US to repress revolutionary societies in America that are giving assistance to General Gomez. Backside includes article related to "sums appropriated yearly to provide senators and congressmen with clerks." Date from written note on the top of the second page.

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