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Monday, June 4, 2012

The River


No teams crossed the river yesterday.  A number of cattle were driven over, some of which broke through the ice and one was drowned.  The ice bridge is very rotten and must soon go out if the mild weather continues.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 2

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