By: Ardis E. Parshall - January 10, 2019 An odd little story appeared in the newspapers of the United States in 1901. It was one of those piece of indeterminate origin that had enough human interest that it was clipped from one paper and published in another, over and over and over. I find it in the newspapers of Sylvan Grove, Kansas; St. Albans, Vermont; Danville, Kentucky, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania; Richmond; Red Bank, New Jersey; Chic...
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