Schoolchildren asked to donate pennies to buy Lincoln papers

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Bicentennial Commission is asking Sangamon County schoolchildren to donate pennies so it can buy an 1830s-era Abraham Lincoln document. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports commission members want to obtain the Sangamon County Minute Book from July 1835 to July 1838 and donate it ...

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