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Odds and Ends From a Curious Era The Atlantic Monthly Teaser
A miscellany of oddities from across the United States notes strange facts such as a Michigan man with a beard five feet four inches long and a Florida farmer reporting eleven pound turnips. It mentions a Confederate surgeons convention in Atlanta on May 20, a New York dentist awarding chrome for each tooth drawn, and shifting ice and gold mineral news from Georgia to Colorado.
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Lake Superior
Florida
Fairfield
Michigan
Carlisle
Pennsylvania
Brown Sequard
Hillsboro
N.E
Atlanta
New York
Jacksonville
Macon
Georgia
Treasure City
Nevada
Pithole City
Wining
Colorado
King Koffee
London
McVickers
St. Louis
Randolph County
Arkansas
Alton Glass Works
New York Post Office
Chicago Roads
Pacific Lines
Sanborn
Buffalo Manufactories
Dodge County
Wisconsin
Janauschel
Charlotte Cushman
Queen Catherine
Jim Pisk, Jr
Brattleboro
Tulare County
California
Stanley
Livingstone
Johnson
Tennessee
Nashville
Ventura
Germany
George TH. Baker
United States
Constantinople
Philadelphia
Italy
Greece
Bingham
Utah