Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 4, 1902
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FARMER KILLED.

       Mart, Tex., Aug. 30.--Mr. J. D. Clouts, a well-to-do farmer came to town today and after he had done his trading, started with a load of cotton pickers on his wagon and before he got he fell from his wagon, the wheel passing over his head, crushing out his brains.
       The justice of the peace went out and held an inquest returning a verdict of in accordance with above facts.

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