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Office, - 139 Broadway. 
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The Practical Farmer. 
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Questions. 
By the best thinkers and writers. 
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1. Value of tlie Temperance Movement.— 
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Or, 
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The object of which will lie to show people howto avoid 
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5th.— We shall have, a paper each month from Mr. 
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Ctli.— Our articles showing how The Sick may got 
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