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To celebrate the first day of a new month, Lower case visits some October favorites from the archives:

Everett (Wash.) Herald, 10/10/78

Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10/27/77

Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 10/24/75

Vermonter, 10/16/77
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