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Interior Secretary considers creating national monument honoring Frances Perkins

Dozens of people turned out at the  Newcastle Frances Perkins Homestead on Thursday to urge U.S. Department of the Interior officials to create a national monument honoring Frances Perkins, the nation’s first female Cabinet secretary.

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