White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-01-31
THE NEW YORK MERCURY.
For. 1867.

This veteran and sterling Journal of N.
whole worlds choicest literature, opens n.
Twenty ninth volume in the full tide of ,h.,
prosperous and uninterrupted popularity which
has sustained it at the head of the American
weekly press for nearly third Of century.
Always famous as
A Complete Library Of Fireside Romance,
il will enter upon the New Year mot only a. Q
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from the, leading novelists Of this country,
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ume xxx the choicest productions Of the best
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Of new and magnificent romance BY Harriet
E. Prescott, entitled
ADRIFT.
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