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    "ocrText": "5\nHe'd been a country doctor at Fulton, Missouri, and had finally gone into\nfinance, became the owner of the National Bank of Commerce at Kansas City,\nthe Clay County State Bank at Excelsior Springs and the Woods and Ruby\nBank at Golden, Colorado--besides a lot of ther commercial enterprises.\nThere are dozens of stories about his close counting of the nickles and\nthe pennies--but if he chose to back a man, he stayed with him through\nthick and thin if that man had energy and character.\nI wasn't long at the Union National Bank until I was getting\nSERVICE*\nany\n$100.00 a month--a magnificent salary in Kansas City in 1905. In June\nof that year Captain George R. Collins decided to start a National Guard\nBattery of light artillery in Kansas City. Some of the boys in the bank\nwere going into it. I was twenty-one years old in May of that year and\ncould do as I pleased. So I joined the battery. After reading all the\nbooks obtainable in the Independence and Kansas City libraries on history\nand government from Egypt to USA, I came to the conclusion that every\ncitizen should know something about military, finance or banking and\nagriculture. All my heroes or great leaders were somewhat familiar with\none or the other, or all three. So I started my grass roots military"
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