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The remedy, Dr. CLARK JOHNSON'S INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP, is sold by agents in nearly every post-village in the United States; but wherever it happens that I do _not_ have an agent, I shall be glad to make one, and would invite honorable persons to communicate with me upon the subject of an agency.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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Dalry on the twenty-ninth; and on that day Willie Johnson was in the post-village, and received several letters lying there for himself and others in Pittenloch.
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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The mails were conveyed from one settlement to another by the postman, who traveled over the hills and through the valleys on horseback, and made known his approach to each post-village by the winding of a huge horn, which was always carried by his saddle-bows ready for use.
A Sketch of the History of Oneonta Dudley M. Campbell 1871
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They make pins and clocks and tools and machines there now; and it's 'the largest and most prosperous post-village of
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WINCHESTER, a post-village in Macon county, Georgia, thirty-nine miles from Macon.
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BUFORD'S, a post-village in Bedford county, Virginia, thirty-seven miles from Lynchburg.
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HENDERSON, a thriving post-village in Granville county, North Carolina, forty-four miles north of Raleigh.
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WARRENTON, a pleasant and flourishing post-village, capital of Warren county, Georgia, on Goulden's creek, 4 miles South of the Georgia road, with which it is connected by a branch.
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ROANOKE, a post-village on the Richmond and Danville rail-road, ninety miles from Richmond.
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BIG LICK, or known also as Gainsborough, is a post-village in Roanoke County, Virginia, fifty-three miles from Lynchburg.
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