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A Handful of Coffin Nails

A gentleman at Lansingburg, N. Y. has discovered that tobacco can be so cultivated there as to be equal to the best cultivated in Cuba for segars, simply by pulling off the leaves when only partly grown. The Genius of… Continue Reading →

Lansingburgh & the Troy Deaf-Mute Literary Society (1888)

TROY, N. Y., — It would seem to those abroad very much as if this city had been in ruins, like the once famous city of the same name, for the reason that nothing has been heard of it since… Continue Reading →

“Incendiary Fires in Lansingburgh” (1869)

☞ INCENDIARY FIRES IN LANSINGBURGH—DARING ATTEMPT TO BURN THE VILLAGE—NINE ATTEMPTS AT INCENDIARISM.—Last evening at about a quarter to twelve o’clock, the barns and sheds of Chas. Baxter, in Baxterville, on the outskirts of the Burgh, were discovered to be… Continue Reading →

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