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On December 15, 1871, the Michigan Argos printed an article that interested so many that it was reprinted around the country for nearly another decade.

And the article was entitled The Ghost of Russian Hill.

It read as follows.

A great deal has been written

about the large trees,

the magnificent scenery,

and the vast gold fields of California.

Even its mammoth vegetables

and delicious mutton have had their honorable mention.

In short, I do not know of much connected with a country that we are unacquainted with.

There's one thing, however, that has not been told of within my knowledge and that is a California ghost the

subject has at least the recommendation of rarity and perhaps it may be found to possess some

interest for myself I give no opinion upon the point.

I could not at the time, but I will truthfully and faithfully record the story as it was said to happen,

and was related to me by the poor woman whose belief, at least, could not be shaken in it, and over a portion of whose

life it had exercised so strange an influence.

It was a year 1854, and I was living at San Francisco, chancing to need someone to assist me in doing some

plain sewing. Mr. Evans, one of the merchants of the town, and a man whose character for

benevolence was known far and wide, gave me the address of one Mrs. Addis.

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