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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1870
Page
4
The Enquirer notes Savannah exports reaching 55,850,980 for year to June, Lincoln Salt brine well at 600 feet yields two barrels per minute, Lincoln and Randolph County curiosities, State Fair exhibits, church counts, and a jumble of anecdotes including Tweed, Cornell Charity joke, papal vote, railroad steel rails, and Lake Superior silver prospects.
A fragment notes a belief that burning dried leaves or pumpkin smoke on a bright fire would instantly drive away flies or kill them. The text presents the claim without verification, reflecting old superstitions rather than proven insect control.
In Passaic county New Jersey a real tiger has appeared and respectable elderly residents are gathering to confront it. A California woman rescued her baby by removing a rattlesnake and dropping it into boiling water, killing it. Alpena Michigan, settled in 1850, now hosts twenty mills employing about one hundred men and producing sixty million feet of lumber yearly.
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