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Bentley's Big One Dime Show Bentley's Big One Dime Show … This show was organized in 1880, 54 years ago


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    Printer: H.A. Bacon, Printer With woodcut images of a Native American Indian being attacked by two dogs and a man being attacked by a bear; text features Mr. Simpson in "Cherokees or the Dogs of the Wreck"

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    Liberty Hall

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