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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 3297380, member: 1476&quot;]You might want to check this out:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">&quot;At the time Thomas A. Edison had made two electric generators and, being a good friend of Miner T. Ames, gave him one of them so that he could have electric lights at the mine. When the big store at the mine was destroyed by fire a new store was established up town at the corner of Chestnut and Seventh streets. In order that the store could have electric lights instead of coal lamps, they strung a pair of wires which gave Minonk the first electrically lighted street in the world.&quot;</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.minonktalk.com/township.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.minonktalk.com/township.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.minonktalk.com/township.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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