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May 9, 1936
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a reporter at large
THE WOMAN WHO DIED TWICE
Carl Carmer
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jemimakins, followers of Jemima Wilkinson. When Jemima Wilkinson was 17 years old, in 1776, she caught a plague spread by the …