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June 27-2019

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BOUND VOLUMES June 27, 2019

BOUND VOLUMES June 27, 2019 200 YEARS AGO A new State: The bill providing for the erection of the District of Maine into a new State, has passed the Senate and House of the Assembly of Massachusetts, 193 to 50. Every member from Maine voted for the separation. The following toast was given at Athens in the State of Georgia at a dinner where the President of the United States was present: “The slave trade, the scourge of Africa, the…