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Need Help Deciphering Some Handwriting On This Revenue Document

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Posted 12/31/2018 08:23 am

My brain isn't making any connection to the third word written above the date line:

Office Chippewa ?????

It almost looks like "Mail", but the term "Office Chippewa Mail" doesn't make sense to me.

Any ideas?

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Posted 12/31/2018 08:33 am

Chipperoa or Chipperosa Mine?

Actually, more likely

https://www.co.chippewa.wi.us/gover...-information

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Posted 12/31/2018 08:41 am

Actually, "Mine" looks good, although I find it more likely to be Michigan than Wisconsin, as the city is Marquette.

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Posted 12/31/2018 08:44 am

According to the 1862 list of POs there was a Chippewa in Cass County Minnesota, Wayne County Ohio, and New Castle County Delaware. A Chippewa Falls and Chippewa City in Chippewa County Wisconsin and a Chippewa Lake in Douglas County Minnesota

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Posted 12/31/2018 08:47 am

Don't forget Marquette Wisconsin, both as a city and county. It is most likely Chippewa Mine.

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Posted 12/31/2018 09:20 am

"Office (of the) Chippewa Mine" is a business name located in Marquette.

There is a William Putnam Spalding (1822-1913) buried in Sault Saint Marie, Chippewa County, MI, which may very well be the signee.
Both Sault Saint Marie and Marquette are along the north shores of the Upper Peninsula.

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Posted 12/31/2018 09:35 am

Thanks for the detective work!

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Posted 12/31/2018 09:42 am

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Q/ What about Chippewa Minn?

Those two-letter state abbreviations are a the new-fangled thing.

Cheers,

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Thank you, yes, I am well aware of the limitations:

Q/ Any guesses on the 1975-1980 spike?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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Posted 12/31/2018 10:29 am

Ikey, Huh? It takes only a simple manual reading to see that the word is "Mine".

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Posted 12/31/2018 3:02 pm

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"Mine" was my first read, John, but the various speculations later in the thread got me over-thinking.

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