. . . has decamped from Mt. Pleasant swindling the children of the Union School out of $40, raised to purchase a Melodeon, besides doing several other things not exactly on the square. His name is Tillotson.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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As Meridith Willson was from Iowa, I nearly expected the fellow's name to be Harold Hill.
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