Is there a way to merge files?

HI folks.
I want to be able to do something that the Web world does all the time. Include files. Is there a way to do that in Pages? I have 1 main file I need to shove 124 items into. They are all .txt files, with formatting that I can use in Pages to make what I want. The problem is that I don't want to manually have to insert all these files every year.
I don't think I can use a merge, because these files are not addresses (and hence not in the address book), nor are they items I can put into a Numbers spreadsheet. They are blocks of text I want to bring into the main document.
I've looked for placeholders where I can insert external files, but that doesn't seem to be possible. Perhaps I am overlooking something.
Any advice appreciated. Cheers

There may be a third party software that does that, but I am not aware of any.
The best that I can advise is to use an application that will identify (not merge) duplicates such as dupeGuru.
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/
Then you would have to manually merge the data.
Ciao.

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