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¶ In Washington a 30-year-old married woman lost her job with the Interstate Commerce Commission. She went home in despair, turned on the gas, died. ¶ At Dayton a Spanish War veteran who had been drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote...
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