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Thursday, January 29, 2015
DEAR ABBY
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Dear Abby: I am in a great re-
ly told me she is taking me to her
lationship with a wonderful man,
church where they are making pies
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for the homeless. Even though this is
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Jan. 29, 1915
For nearly a quarter of a century an inmate
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O.A. Hadley is dead and the peculiar contract
which he made with the county court in 1891
is thus cancelled. In that year he deeded to
the county a quarter section of land situated
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ing that the county give him a home on the
poor farm for the rest of his days. Being alone
in the world and facing the decline in life, he
wanted a home and companions and yet was
unwilling to accept charity when he was the
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at the county farm except very recently when
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interment, the county defraying the expense of
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Jan. 29, 1965
Has it ever occurred to you that there are
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with his ears; then things took a turn for the
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mel, now of Bend, along with two co-workers,
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damage was not nearly as severe as that report-
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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Baltimore,” died at age 75.
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Palm Springs, California.
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zelwood went on trial in An-
chorage, Alaska, on charges
stemming from the 1989 oil
spill. (Hazelwood was acquit-
ted of the major charges, and
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Robert Frost, American poet
(born 1874, died this date in
1963).
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