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Attic Seashore Scheme in Fiction and News Snips
A jumble of anecdotes and notices recounts a comic plan to live in an unfinished attic to imitate a seaside cottage, plus reports on Confederate money finds in Atlanta, a near-drowning boat race incident, immigrant flows, a New York railroad disaster survivor, and assorted notes on prosperity, art, and curiosities in early press chatter.
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Jona
Brown
Walt
Shore Cottage
Boston Transcript
Atlanta
Richmond
Charles D. Barker
Blaine
Washington
Hudson
Paulion
London
Harper's Weekly