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Transcriber's notes:

The following is a list of changes made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one.

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Although a good many screaching females in these Women's Rights, Although a good many screeching females in these Women's Rights,

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men who with shut jaws, gleaming eyes, and fixed byonets men who with shut jaws, gleaming eyes, and fixed bayonets

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though he is a farmer, not much used to society, there is to-day Though he is a farmer, not much used to society, there is to-day

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Salutes and Salutations, Calls, Conversations, Invtations, Salutes and Salutations, Calls, Conversations, Invitations,