Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 54
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 27, 1907
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Marlin In the Race.
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       Marlin only lacked seven votes of winning the meeting place of the Southwestern Icemen's Associaion (sic) at Dallas.
       When the matter came up I. J. Nathan as resident of the Business League, presented Marlin as a candidate.  After considerable skirmishing in which a number of towns and cities engaged, New Orleans and cities engaged, New Orleans won over Marlin by seven votes.
       Mr. Nathan was promised by many of the members that if he renewed the invitation at the next meeting that they would be delighted to assist him in securing the meeting for 1909.

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