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    "title": "Newspaper Clippings",
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    "ocrText": "purpose. In addition to the city council, fire de-\npartment, military, Red Men, and Knights of\nPythias of Alexandria, and the Columbia Turn-\nverein, of this city, many well-known business\nhouses have been assigned places in the line, to\nrepresent the industries of the city.\nHon. Courtland H. Smith has been selected as\nchief-marshal, and has chosen the following aids:\nA. T. Ramsay, chief of staff; aids-R. T. Lucas, E.\nR. Carlin, M. B. Harlow, F. L. Brockett, Theodore\nFicklin, T. D. Addison, R. D. Catts, J. E. Pierpoint,\nWilliam B. Smoot, C. E. Truce, Robert Ballinger,\nLeonard Marbury, George C. Wedderburn, Wash-\nington Gazette; George Douglass, Washington Capi-\ntal; Norval E. Foard, Baltimore Sun; B. D. Stal-\nlings, Alexandria Gazette; marshals-Alexandria\nLight Infantry, C. W. J. Summers; Friendship\nFire Company, C. C. Chichester; Hydraulion Fire\nCompany, Ernest Ballenger; Hook and Ladder,\nFrank Warfield; Columbia Fire Company, R. C\nLee; citizen marshals, Alexandria city-William\nH. Smith, Robert Monroe, W. E. Fendall, E. L.\nBrockett, William Murtaugh, W. H. P. Berkeley,\nJames E. Waddey, William Cowling, M. Schuler,\nA. N. Hurdle, Robert French; Alexandria County\n-Frank Hume, William J. Gray, Alexander Hun-\nter, Benjamin J. Austin, Richard Veitch, Richard\nHatch, C.B. Graham, jr., Richard Johnston; Fair-\nfax County-William Watkins, James McWilliams,\nJudge James Sangster, Alfred Roberts, J. N. Gibbs,\nP. R. Pullman.\nThe procession will be formed on Washington\nstreet, the right resting on Cameron, and traverse\nthe principal thoroughfares of the city, disband-\ning on Royal street. It is proposed to have a grand\ncarnival scene in the evening, and the citizens\nhave been invited to illuminate their residences\nalong the route of the procession, in order to add\nbrilliancy to it.\nA. N. Hurdle has been chosen king of the carni-\nval, with the following assistants J. Proctor, B. F.\nPenn, R. M. Latham, R. C. Lee, James A. Higgins,\nGeorge O. Monroe, Mose Waterman, Samuel Ten-\nnesson, E. H. Hawkins, Willianr Wheatley, Will-\niam Murtaugh, Fred Rogers, William Desmond,\nAlonzo Travers, O. Nightingale, and James Beach.\nINTERVIEWED ON THE SPOT"
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