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  Can you help remove an obsession that has caused six people to
get nothing else done all day?  Please?
  We are searching for a copy of the map that accompanied the 1915
Farm Journal Farmer's Directory of Richland County, Ohio.  Perhaps
another map by this company will suffice.
  The directory lists the names of people living in Richland County
and the expected data about them, coded in a reasonable fashion.  But
then it adds from 2 to 5 lower-case letters at the end of most entries,
which look something like this: eldd; or bbd; or cdd; or crud; or ud;
or buld; or meld; etc.  The abbreviations key in the front of the book
fails to explain these letters, which always end in the letter d.  Not
every entry ends with a string of such letters (most do, however) and
there are dozens of different groupings, rarely repeating.
  I suppose I cannot give enough information for any bright minds out
there to come up with the solution. But if anyone has a copy of the
map would they see if there is anything on it that makes any sense of
this?  Map coordinates seems pretty unlikely, but there might be some
other explanation evident.  Thanks!
 
Bill Barrow
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