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Jefferson, Pennsylvania: Double Identity

Here we go again. Bob Liddell provided the trio of photos of 1929 notes from the three banks in Jefferson, Pa. It seems simple enough. The catch is that they are from two entirely different towns two-thirds of the way across the bottom of the state from each other.

Charters 9660 and 14071 are in York County in the east whereas 11370 is in Greene County, which is way off in the southwestern-most county in the state.

This is a repeat of the New Salem situation that I wrote up in the December 2019 issue. What tickles me is that both of these occurrences were in

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