Talk:Timothy Dwight Hobart

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Did you know... that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle?

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This is the correct article, corrected for any copyright problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Timothy_Dwight_Hobart/Temp Billy Hathorn (talk) 17:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm sorry, Billy Hathorn, but that still contains copyright violations from the sources you originally copied from. The article has now been cleaned (see below). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:33, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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