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Dakota Wood Chopper's Strike Leads to Prize Claim
A story from Deadwood Pioneer notes Joe Rivard, a Dakota wood chopper from the Homestake camp near Brownsville, Dakota, won a Louisiana Lottery prize of $300,000 with ticket No. 5,8 and collected through First National Bank before sailing to Canada to buy a home for his aging parents. The item also includes a string of puff and advertising snippets for patent medicines and quack cures typical of late 19th century newspapers.
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