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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1890
Page
6
A rugged Maine horse buyer Tom King scours the state for a swift mount while quipping about the horse’s knees. A future owner recalls the “Methodist” horse’s success, sparking a memory of a missed price and a chance long gone.
Five gentlemen visiting Fish Trap Lake near Galena report a half fish half serpent monster about thirty feet long. The creature rose from the water like a whale spout then swam toward the Mississippi, leaving the lake’s edge deserted since the earlier ten year sighting. Local resident Adam Bell confirmed the earlier encounter and the monster’s home in nearby caverns along bayous by New California.
A poem extols charity as kindness to the penitent and afflicted and urges forgiving compassion toward a brother in need. The advertisement cites Hood’s Sarsaparilla with claimed medicinal quality produced under expert supervision and promotes Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething and a Microbe Killer testimonial.
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