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October 10, 2009 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
The “Mother Lode Magnet” newspaper from the small mining town of Jamestown in Northern California had an interesting item in its September 14, 1898 issue. One wouldn’t be surprised if it appeared in a newspaper today:
Filed under: Food for Thought, Post Civil War, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: Jamestown, Mother Lode Magnet, NC, North Carolina, old newspapers

