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Mt. Pleasant, a City In Itself

Published October 30, 2013

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Check out this cool series of advertisements for Mt. Pleasant, printed in The Washington Times on October 17th, 1915.

Mt. Pleasant advertisement in 1915

Posted in Old Ads & Classifieds
and tagged 1910s, Mt. Pleasant

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