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Celebrating History - Election delays memorial

By Emily Mayer

As mentioned before in this column, the year 1916 was also an election year. Sometimes campaigns get in the way of other events, and this article was published on the front page of The Havre Plaindealer’s Oct. 21, 1916 issue:

LEWIS MEMORIAL AT A LATER DATE

Will Not Take Place Until After Election

Memorial services for the late R. X. Lewis, which was announced for Thursday evening of this week at the Hill county court house, will not take place until after the general election in November. Definite announcement of the date will be made later.

The postponement was made nec...

 

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