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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1880
Page
3
A sensational tale from The Register recounts a ruse in a saloon where a cheese slice hidden in a hat lining led a nervous man to fear a deadly odor and a looming disease. The prank escalates to a frightened voyage home, a feigned diagnosis, a post mortem on the hat, and a later chase to identify the prankster.
The document lists South Carolina townships including Giddy Swamp Die Weat Long Cane Tabernacle Dark Corner Alligator Ebenezer Samm y Swamp Pee Dee Pocotaligo Scaffle town Privateer Swimming Pons Pumpkintown and Turkey. It mentions an elderly resident of Newtown approached by an agent for a tax survey.
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