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The Jackson Weekly Citizen
Tuesday, 3 May, 1870

         BATES FISHER, an elderly man, a resident of the town of
       Summit, Oceana county, is mysteriously missing. He left his
       home on Thursday, the 14th, to go to the town of Weare to
       pay a debt, and has not since been heard of.
       
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The Jackson Weekly Citizen
Tuesday, 24 May, 1870

         BATES FISHER, a farmer residing near Pentwater, mysteriously
       disappeared some weeks ago, and has not been heard of since.
       His friends think he has been murdered.
       
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The Berrien County Record
Thursday, 9 June, 1870

         On Thursday, April 21st, three weeks ago, MR. BATES FISHER,
       a highly respectable farmer, living near Pentwater, in this
       state, suddenly disappeared under circumstances which lead
       to the belief that he has been foully dealt with. At that
       time MR. FISHER, who is the brother of the wife of COL. L. F.
       HALE, of this city, started to go to a neighbors some miles
       distant to pay a certain sum of money he was owing him, since
       which time nothing has been seen or heard of him by his friends.
        - Coldwater Republican.
        
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