Uncle Sam, Private Citizen
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A public-spirited farmer of the bearded and straw-chewing type, clad in red-and-white striped pantaloons with straps, a blue and starred waistcoat, a “grandfather’s” hat, and leather boots, scratches with a quill his signature to an instrument deeding his property, situate on both sides of a mill stream, to a company that desires to construct a modern dam and develop and use the water power for the transmission of electricity Source : query.nytimes.com |