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    <abstract id="aspace_6ca0ed8b258188f860863d04f98eb2a4">Letters sent to Z.T. McBee and members of his immediate family at Clinton Furnace in Monongalia County, mainly from Jackson Steele of Kansas, concerning crops, business conditions, and prices.</abstract>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024914" source="lcsh">Monongalia County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
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    <persname source="ingest">McBee, Z. T.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Steele, Jackson.</persname>
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