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Mailman George A. Perkins
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Mailman George A. Perkins receiving a purse containing 25 silver dollars from Marshall Browne, publisher of the East Side News, on the 25th anniversary of his delivering mail on the East Side. Observing the ceremony which took place at the Security State Bank, Atwood Avenue at Winnebago Street, are some 30 East Side business men to whom Perkins has delivered mail during the past 25 years.
March 10, 1949
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Editor Marshall F. Browne
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WIBA Christmas Mail
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VFW Auxiliary Anniversary
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