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Show Incident of Maalm'e Boyhood. The Placetaqula, Me., Observer of April 26, 1800, contained the following legal notice: "Freedom notice: For a valuable consideration. I have thla day relinquished to my aon. Hiram 8. Maxim, hla time during hla minority. minor-ity. I ahall claim none of hla earnings earn-ings or pay any debts of hla contract-luc contract-luc after thla data, laaao Maxim. Witness. Wit-ness. D. D. J-'lynt Abbott, April 18, 1S60." The lad who wna given hla liberty lib-erty la now Sir Hiram Maxim, ot 1-on-don. Eng.. the great Inventor of rapid-fire rapid-fire (una and airships. |