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Show PI UJ -DISPUTE ON BIRTHDAY OF M'KIIMLEY SETTLED CANTON. O.. Jan. 28. Close personal per-sonal friends and former neighbors of President William McKlhley, whose I home w as In this city, today scouted stories that tho martyred president was! born on February 26 instead of on IJanuon 89, the date generally ob- ;servi-d. j They said the controversy over the .date- of his birth had come up before and had resulted from a typographical error mad0 In the congressional directory direc-tory years ago. Th0 date as recorded ion th0 Mckinley mausoleum here I where rest the remains of th0 entire McXlnley family, is January 29 Thla date, it was pointed out, was verified at the lime of tho issuanco of the uffi- lai sketoh of McXlnley, ent out by jibe Mc-Kinley Memorial association The controversy was renewed last nlghl at Pittsburgh at a McKu.lev club dinner, when James Francis Burk. I form, i- v.-reiary of the Uepubllcan na-! .tlonal committee, suld that ti, mst authentic pubh,- records g.yc- l-Vhruai?': 126 as the most authentic date. j |