Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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TENNIS TEAM OF 1916 Smirl Miunegerode Hilkcrbaumcr Niemocller Thursby XV. N. Fuller Szxttertield Sinz x

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THE TENNIS TEAM OF 1925 I