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Show Letter Fourteen Years on Road. Now York. Thomas P. Davis, a roofing contractor, upon recolvlng a letter at his home ln Brooklyn, made it hurried trip to Manhattan, turning over in his mind tho prospects of fat profits from a very promising bid for work made In the letter. Wbon he ar-, rived at an ofllce ln a down town, building he aBkod If he could sea thei I blddor whose name was signed to tho letter. "Ho has been dead fourteen, ' years," n clerk replied. Inspection of) , I (he envelope showed that tho lettor , had been mailed August 6, 1894, ' |