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Traveler at Jan 07, 2020 03:31 PM

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too large -- have already created a stricture -- HS Smith left for the East this morning, to return in 4 or 5 months -- Evening I attended initiation at Olive Branch lodge No 12, I.O.O.F. Bed 12 -- 18 above zero by Gillings termometer --

Wednesday Feb 29

AM cloudy, with a few light snow squalls -- PM cleared off cool -- The first case of genuine small pox for several years developed today -- Man recently arrived from Grass Valley, Cal, where they have several cases -- Resides near old RR depot,

Mathewson Breaks Arm Cold! Mike Heney Visits me

on F st, south of Taylor -- Name, Fraser -- Still another case near there was also reported this evening but not substantiated -- General Mathewson fell down the stairs from the 2nd story, leading out into F street, broke his left arm near the wrist -- Cut his head badly on an iron railing in falling & rolled onto the sidewalk insensible -- Mike Heney of Gold Hill, a miner called to see me at my room about 8 oclock, relative to a mean article which might get some believers in the Evening Report of the 16th and which had been attributed to me -- We parted amicably -- Evening about town -- Bed at 2 -- Clear & cold -- 20 above zero --

1888 Snow cold Smallpox Centennial Assessed WRLitchfield Alfred Philips Jr

Thursday March 1, 1888

Cold & stormy -- Toward evening & lively snowstorm set in, & 3 or 4 inches fell -- More cases of smallpox are reported in lower south part of the city -- The first

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too large -- have already created a stricture -- HS Smith left for the East this morning, to return in 4 or 5 months -- Evening I attended initiation at Olive Branch lodge No 12, I.O.O.F. Bed 12 -- 18 above zero by Gillings termometer --

Wednesday Feb 29

AM cloudy, with a few light snow squalls -- PM cleared off cool -- The first case of genuine small pox for several years developed today -- Man recently arrived from Grass Valley, Cal, where they have several cases -- Resides near old RR depot,

Mattheson Breaks Arm Cold! Mike Heney Visits me

on F st, south of Taylor -- Name, Fraser -- Still another case near there was also reported this evening but not substantiated -- General Mathewson fell down the stairs from the 2nd story, leading out into F street, broke his left arm near the wrist -- Cut his head badly on an iron railing in falling & rolled onto the sidewalk insensible -- Mike Heney of Gold Hill, a miner called to see me at my room about 8 oclock, relative to a mean article which might get some believers in the Evening Report of the 16th and which had been attributed to me -- We parted amicably -- Evening about town -- Bed at 2 -- Clear & cold -- 20 above zero --

1888 Snow cold Smallpox Centennial Assessed WRLitchfield Alfred Philips Jr

Thursday March 1, 1888

Cold & stormy -- Toward evening & lively snowstorm set in, & 3 or 4 inches fell -- More cases of smallpox are reported in lower south part of the city -- The first