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west-jersey pioneer (bridgeton, n.j.) 1851-1884 — sulphur smell

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1881-01-13
Location: bridgeton, new jersey, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: west-jersey pioneer (bridgeton, n.j.) 1851-1884 · 1881-01-13 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1881-01-13 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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... and there are never any sulphur smells in the household. While that fire burns, sirs, there is peace in Curtis Andrew’s home.” New Jersey sent to the late war the fol lowing number of men: Of four years’ standing, 115; three years, 43,573; two years, 2,153; one year, 16,812; nine months, 10,877; three months, 3,105, and 100 days, 700; the number of men furnished and not classified, 2,973, and men furnished but who went into regiments of other States, 8,957, making a total of all the Union soldiers sent to the war by New Jersey of 88,305. To the boast and glory of New Jersey be it said no other State in the Union, according ...

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