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Palmer was the founder and president of the
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yearly on shortweighted package goods. All devices for fraud resorted to by merchants and dealers were to be brought to account. She had been joined in this work by Mrs. William Grant Brown, of New York.
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O'Loughlin, R. S.; Montgomery, H. F.; Dwyer, Charles (May 1899).
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