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Title
Big berry business
Institution
Peter White Public Library

Subject
Railroads

Subject
Huckleberries

Subject
Excursions

Item Number
AB01a549

Type
text

Description
Four carloads of pickers, 208 people in all, constitued the regular huckle-berry on the South Shore, out from this city on Wednesday, August 1, the day the train was put on. It is said that the berries are going to be unusally abudent. The season is just fairly open.

Big berry business

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