Auctioneer adds Spanish to call

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The State Journal-Register PLEASANT PLAINS, Ill . -- Some auctioneers carry the unofficial title of "colonel," a moniker carried over from the Civil War when the colonel of the division sold at auction goods seized by his army.

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