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    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Clark County: Prisoners Provided Valuable Community Service during the Flooding of 1913
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    3. Salt Lake City (UT) Telegram, April 14, 1913, p. 6. Jeffersonville, Indiana, April 14-One thousand convicts in the state reformatory here were feasted Sunday by the citizens of Jeffersonville in appreciation of the services rendered by the prisoners during the flood. The convicts worked night and day on the Pennsylvania railroad embankment that protects this city from the Ohio River and prevented its breaking.

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