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Quickly, it was apparent through multiple ads splashed daily across the pages of the Republican, that the land sales event was held on Thursday, May 16, not on Friday, May 17, as previously believed. Discovery of an Arizona Republican article dated May 17 and stating that the event had taken place the day before confirmed that the town’s founding had been “mis-remembered” due to faulty typesetting in the Chandler Arizonan. And this early typo led to the event being memorialized on the wrong day for over 100 years. Click HERE to see all newspaper articles that Dr. Chandler and the Chandler Improvement Company placed in various newspapers throughout Arizona to raise awareness about the impending Land Sales Day for the Chandler Townsite.
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