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Griffin, Frank

journalist, lawyer, was born March 8, 1848, in Wisconsin. He is the editor and owner of The Daily Review and Weekly Advocate of Maryville, Mo. He has waged an incessant warfare upon the saloons through his publications.

For his persistence in fighting for prohibition his presses have been broken, dynamite thrown into his office, and himself and family have been shot at a number of times. But through it all he has waged continual warfare, and is now one of the most prominent prohibitionists of Missouri.

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