Excerpt from The World's Charity to the Conemaugh Valley Sufferers and Who Received ItUpon the completion of this, the committee, after weeding out, the fraudulent claims (of which they found quite a number classified those that were honest as follows: class 1. Under this class were placed widows who had four or more children under sixteen years of age, and whose husbands had been drowned.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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