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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin M. Sawbridge, stationed somewhere in North Africa during World War II, sent a check from South Africa to pay his Key West property taxes on two lots in Martello Tower subdivision, received by tax collector Sam B. Pinder.
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ARMY OFFICER 'SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA' SQUARES UP PROPERTY TAX
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin M. Sawbridge, is "somewhere in North Africa", where bullets are whizzing and shells and bombs are exploding. but not even the dangers of this most destructive war in the world's history have made him forget the home that he intends to build in Key West.
Today. Sam B. Pinder, city tax collector, received a letter from Colonel Sawbridge. dated December 11, "Somewhere in South Africa".enclosing a check in payment of last year's taxes on two lots that he owns in the Martello Tower subdivision.
Those are the lots on which Colonel Sawbridge intends to build a home should he come back from the war. He was sent a statement of his taxes on November 1, and he said that it finally reached him at his base "after many forwardings".
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Key West
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December 11
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check enclosed in payment of last year's taxes on two lots in martello tower subdivision
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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin M. Sawbridge, located somewhere in North Africa during the war, sent a letter dated December 11 from somewhere in South Africa to city tax collector Sam B. Pinder, enclosing payment for taxes on lots where he plans to build a home.