The Ouachita Telegraph - Old Dick, the Rag-picker, Found Dead

Date: Jul. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, September 29, 1876
Page 2, Column 5

        Old Dick, the rag-picker and junk-dealer, was found dead in his
little hut at Five Points.  It is said the old darkey had a hundred or 
two dollars in gold at his death, but no one knows where it is.

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