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Magnificent hotel bid and distant famine spark dispatches
Articles describe corn shipments from Mobile due to Mexican famine, a New York Chicago syndicate seeking a Washington site for a grand hotel, death of Alexander Inwood in Hartford, a mausoleum contract for the Mackay family, Sumatra spiders with odd shells, and civic rights for soldiers under U.S. law.
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Mobile
Ala
Mexico
New York
Chicago
Washington
America
John W. Mackay
Greenwood Cemetery