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Spam Luncheon Meat.12 oz. *1.39 Hanover Red Kidney Beans.15 oz. 2/69* Maxwell House Coffee.1 it>. *2.49 Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup.jo% oz. 35* Fireside Saltine Crackers.1 id. 79* Smithfield Sausage.1 id.‘1.09 Tide Detergent......42 oz. box *2.09
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