Did you ever attend an auction sale? A goodly number of our citizens can answer that question in the affirmative, judging by the crowd we saw yesterday at Col. Sanders’ sale. Whether it was the popularity of the individual, or the expectation of finding something recherché, or to obtain articles at an unusually low price, certain it is a goodly number of people were gathered there, and not an article was offered but found somebody ready to take it at a fair valuation. The fact is, it has been so long since the household goods of any one declining housekeeping have been sold at auction here, that our citizens were eager to purchase.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1
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