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macon beacon (macon, miss.) 1859-1995 — sulphur smell

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1897-04-10
Location: macon, mississippi, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: macon beacon (macon, miss.) 1859-1995 · 1897-04-10 · page 1
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1897-04-10 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sulphur smell”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... gang, and long before the sulphuric smell passed away the convicts awoke, from the shock to find Ikmt, on vrhoin the current stopped, dead, and two others ba lly uurnea. For the ConvlcU to Read. President S. D. Trapp of the Alabama convict bureau bus discovered that a supply of good reading matter would prove a great comfort and advantage to theiconvicts, and has requested the good women of the various cities and. towns of the state to gather together all of the old magazines, newspapers and and religious tracts and notify the convict department from time to time, so that it may have the reading matter forwarded to the several prisons. It is said ...

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