Word: banta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plainfield, N. J., six years ago, one August N. Laggren, manufacturer, adopted Alice Amelia Banta, a dark, dimpled, amiable child of nine years. His wife died. Recently he, 52, married the child. Said he: "Those who know me in Plainfield-and they are plenty- were not stirred up by my marriage as outsiders were, because I believe the people in my own home town always respected me for what I have been-a regular, honest-to-goodness heman! I have never done a mean act in my whole life...