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100 Years Ago: News of Canadian Elections Touches Marlborough

Just about everyday Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.

Sept. 29, 1911: The Election in Canada: Alfred E. Bill Says the Campaign there was a Hot One

Alfred E. Bill of Boston was a visitor at the home of his brothers, Guerdon D. and John G. Bill Thursday. He has just returned from a two weeks visit passed in Nova Scotia and during a portion of this time he had the opportunity of seeing a great deal of the Canadian political campaign in that portion of the Dominion. 

"It certainly was a very hot campaign, said Mr. Bill "I never saw anything like it around here. Such abuse as was leveled at the candidates I have never heard..."

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