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Grover Cleveland: There is no pretense that there is any need of a public building there except to accommodate the post-office.

On the recordJune 4, 1888
There is no pretense that there is any need of a public building there except to accommodate the post-office.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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