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- Obit Albert Petersilia 1946
- Evening Star newspaper Washington DC Saturday 18 May 1946 Obit for Albert Petersilia husband of Elise Dulin Petersilia and father of Mary Petersilia Fitzgerald
- Evening Star
- Washington (DC), District of Columbia
- May 18, 1946 - Page 9
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- W. C. Wood Dies at 81; Retired Post Office Aide
- Obituary for William Chester Wood, The Evening Star, Wednesday, October 02, 1946
- Evening Star
- Washington (DC), District of Columbia
- October 2, 1946 - Page 2
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- Edward Curtis
- Lawsuit of Son death
- Evening Star
- Washington (DC), District of Columbia
- January 18, 1931 - Page 19
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- Franklin Thomas Field
- Charged and sentenced to 3 months in Jail
- Evening Star
- Washington (DC), District of Columbia
- May 7, 1957 - Page 16
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