Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 4
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August  14, 1902
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APPOINTED CLAIM AGENT.

       City Attorney Dan M. Jackson of this city will embark in the railroad service about September lst.
       He has been appointed Claim Agent of the Texas and New Orleans railway with headquarters at Houston, his territory extending from Houston to Orange and from Beaumont to Naccodoches (sic) with occasional trip over other lines of the road, which is a part of the Southern Pacific system.
       The position is one of responsibility and importance as it carries with it the adjustment of multiferous claims against the company for damages both to person and property.
       That Mr. Jackson is peculiarly qualified for the position his friends have no doubt and expect of him a successiul (sic) career in his new calling.

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