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Emphasized Gospel of John were published during 1906. Retail mail order business amounted to $ 10,839.50 as compared with $ 8,221.11 in 1905. 100 colporters (about) at work at any one time. Fifteen regular employees at Association's headquarters in Chicago. Twenty-two depots of supply for the Association's colporters in the United States and elsewhere.”
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