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"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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A New Orleans mayor appeals for aid, 1874.

“Nothing but large increase of resources for relief can prevent the horrors of famine and great loss of life. We need a million of dollars more. Details will be given by mail. LOUIS A. WILTZ, Mayor and Treasurer of Relief Fund.”

— The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874, page 1