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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1901
Page
4
The passage notes a series of droughts from 1762 to 1876 with long rainless spans. It highlights 1762 as the longest drought, lasting 123 days from May 1 to September 1, causing Americans to ship hay and grain to England, illustrating agricultural distress.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway will send six reproductions of Moran paintings on six sheets 10 by 12 inches for twenty five cents. F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago handles the offer. Output of anthracite coal for the year is estimated at 50 million tons, about 10 million more than 1900.
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