September 20 Saturday – Dr. John Brown sent a small printed folder with two poems, no letter [MTP].
The closed. New York Stock Exchange It would stay closed for ten days. This began the Great Depression of 1873, the longest in US history; it lasted through the spring of 1879 and caught Sam in a financial bind when his NY bank, Henry Clews & Co. froze funds.
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