The Oolocist. 



Vol. XXXIV. No. 1 



Albion, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1917. Whole No. 854 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N.Y., and Lacon, III. 



1917 



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