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A Queer Swindle.Missouri can at last claim rivalry to the state of wooden nutmegs. The other day as Daniel Gardway, a St. Louis merchant, was sorting for shipment a large consignment of ginseng received from Calhoun county a bystander picked up a root of dry “seng” worth $3 or 13.25 and tried to break it- Instead of snapping, as the root generally does, it broke, but did not separate. Struck with curiosity the- man cut into the root with his pocket knife, when he found it had been filled or loaded with lead.
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Hornellsville Weekly Tribune
Hornellsville, New York, US
Fri, Oct 27, 1893
Page 6
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Hailey H.
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