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It Was Not Gold

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Considerable excitement was caused yesterday by the announcement that a pocket of gold had been discovered on a farm northeast of the city belonging to Dr. W. B. Smith, where a well was being bored. After any number of amateur opinions as to its genuineness, the chunks of gold analyzed at the university proved to be iron pyrites and the sensation exploded.
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