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    "ocrText": "Form 2213\nPRELIMINARY FORM FOR DECLARATION OF INTENTION TO BECOME A CITIZEN\n5555\n5233\nU. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR\nNOT TO BE FILLED IN BY ALIEN\nFOR USE OF OFFICIALS SEARCHING IMMI-\nNATURALIZATION SERVICE\nGRATION RECORDS\nCLERK OF COURT:\nRECORDS EXAMINED\nPlace number\nin\nCARD INDEX\nupper left-hand corner of all copies of\ndeclaration, immediately under your\nINDEX BOOKS\ndeclaration number.\nDISTRICT DIRECTOR OF NATURALIZATION\nMANIFESTS\nI desire to file my Declaration of Intention (first paper) to become a citizen.\nMr.\nMy name is\nMrs.\n/\nMeryon Poplauski\n; age, 18 Death years.\n(Alien should ufint or typewrite here/true, original, and Correct name)\n(Give age last birthday)\nMy\nMy personal description is: Color, white ; complexion, dark\npresent occupation Miss is work the farm labover\n; height, 5\nfeet\n8\n71/4\ninches;\nweight, 150 pounds; color of hair, burnettebrown ; color of eyes, brown\n;\nother visible distinctive marks: none\nI was\nborn in Ratowo Stare, Russia, nongland\n(Qity or town)\n(Country)\nMy on the residence 14 is day 909\nof\npresent\n(Number and street)\n(City or town)\n(County)\n(State)\nThe or me was\nplace where I took the ship train which landed in the United States Johohama,\nJahan\n, on\nOctober 13, 19/7\nThe the ship railroad which I was Fushims (Month) maru\n(Day)\n(Year)\nname of or on came\nMy last place of foreign residence\nsard was Stare Katown\nPoland\n(City or town)\n(Country)\nI am no married. The name of my { wife husband\nShe\nis\n}\nwas born at\nHe\n, and now resides at\n,\nI am now a subject of and intend to renounce allegiance to\nPoland\n(Write name and title of sovereign and country of which now a subject;\nor,\nI arrived at port\nif citizen of a the republic, United write name States of republic immigration only) of Seattle\n(City or town)\nWashington\n(State or territory)\n, on nov.5,1917 14-8\n(Give exact month, day, and year)\n(OVER)"
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