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Gold mining boom and retreat from farm life noted
A Missouri farmer sold his acreage after a rainy day and walked 300 miles to cultivate one acre of corn before moving to town and walking 600 miles for work. Reports show rising mining activity in Arizona with new gold veins and increased stamp production, while heat waves in the East cause hundreds of deaths and prostrations. A Mexican movement seeks to honor Maximilian with a monument at Queretaro, citing the hilltop execution and a stolen death coin.
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