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was called "the Old Coon." The name was accepted promptly. The emblem, a metallic figure of a coon couchant, was hoisted high over the building . . . Perched over the smoke stack the coon was visible from all parts of the city. . . . The emblem survived two disastrous fires. When the paper was moved
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rushed to his room to save the valuable books in his library. He was accompanied by a self-possessed compositor named Fisk, who began to assist him in throwing books out at the windows. They had not thrown out more than a dozen . . . before their retreat was wholly cut off. . .
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with its one thousand subscribers, to James C. Cummins, who had recently arrived from
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