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    "ocrText": "Aileen\nBullard\nMISSOURI\nundeveloped fields. It became the mother of three pioneer trails-the proud parent of com-\nmerce for the great West. Religion called-ano it responded with the establishment of\nchurches. It planted deeply in heart and soul those underlying principles of human\nconduct divinely proclaimed. By righteousness exalted, the city grew. Education\ncalled-and it answered with colleges, scholarly men, distinguished authors, artists and\nscientists. To know the best and the most for the given task was an obligation well\nfulfilled. The nation called-ano unhesitatingly this city answered with soldiers greater\nin numbers than the need; with statesmen; with money. Into every national conflict it\nmarched with head high, heart light and step steady-and out of the wars it marched\nback with record glorious. Into the halls of Congress, to the Governor's chair, to consti-\ntutional conventions it went. Its counsel was ever regarded, for it was good. It was\nhap-\npy in public service. Into the World War it went with the greatest cordon of trained\nsoldiers presented by any city of its size; it shed its blood on French soil for the principles\nof democracy and in defense of weaker nations. Tender of heart as well as strong with\ncourage, it sent its thousands of dollars to the war-stricken of Europe; it served in redeem-\ning the world.\nThis is the story of a city with wealth. Its happiness and progress spring not from sel-\nfish heaps of gold, but from riches beyond the count of man. Richer than money are its\nbeautiful trees, wide lawns, fresh air; better than millionaires its honest, cultured, industrious\ncitizens; greater than oil wells or gold mines its happy children; more glorious than palaces\nare its contented homes. Material wealth corrupts and decays. That deeper richness,\nbased on character, abides and grows. 'Tis this wealth our city enjoys.\nThis is the story of\na youthful city. A\nhundred years in the\nlife of an individual is\nbut a day in the build-\ning of a city. It took\nRome 600 years to\nproduce a Caesar;\nFlorence eleven cen-\nturies to become the\nart center of the\nworld. A city's hun-\ndredth year is but its\nadolescence, when it\nbegins to become ac-\nquainted with itself,\nwhen its energies and\nits will are fresh with\nvigor, fired with zeal.\nYouth is the promise\nof progress.\nRead this story\nit is your story-you\nmade it-for it is the\nTRUMAN\nstory of your city.\nNARA"
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