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CLASSIFIED Saturday 17 June 2017
Family says Father’s Day founder was renegade dOCTOR ON dUTY
Oranjestad
Dr. A. Dirksz
By JOHN ROGERS William Jackson Smart be- Roddy, marketing direc- Tel. 587 9787
Associated Press came a farmer after fight- tor for a large Los Angeles San Nicolas
LOS ANGELES (AP) — This ing in the Civil War. He not company. TIME SHARES FOR SALE Dr. R.H.Luchumun
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