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machinery and the balance of a raffle draw
After the paper closed, they should have received their dues from what came in as the proceeds from the sale of machinery and the balance of a raffle draw, which had been floated to raise funds for the paper.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

March and the beginning of April receiving dispatches
Let us go back, for a moment, to President Lincoln, whom we left on board the Ocean Queen, at City Point, toward the end of March and the beginning of April, receiving dispatches from Grant, who was victoriously engaged at the front.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

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