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Staunton Vindicator
Staunton, Virginia
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Mr. Ash Woodward retrieved a wrinkled but readable timber price-list for S. H. Gard & Son from a local post office on Tuesday morning. The mail, from Churchill & Simons in Liverpool, was part of cargo from the steamer Oregon, sunk off Fire Island on March 11, 1886, and recovered July 1-4, 1886, per New York Postmaster Henry S. Pearson.
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On going to the postoffice, Tuesday morning Mr. Ash Woodward took out for S. H. Gard & Son, timber dealers, a paper addressed to them. It was the wood price-list of Churchill & Simons, timber dealers in Liverpool. On the outside of the wrapper was a tag bearing this inscription:
P.O., New York, July 6, 1886.
This piece is a portion of the mail forwarded from Queenstown, Ireland, per steamer Oregon, on March 7th, and damaged by the sinking of that vessel off Fire Island, on March 11th.
Recovered from the wreck July 1-4.
HENRY S. PEARSON,
Postmaster.
The paper was much wrinkled and shrunken, but was as easily readable as if it had never been at the bottom of the sea.
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New York
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July 6, 1886
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the paper was much wrinkled and shrunken, but was as easily readable as if it had never been at the bottom of the sea.
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Mr. Ash Woodward took out a paper addressed to S. H. Gard & Son from the postoffice on Tuesday morning. It was the wood price-list of Churchill & Simons in Liverpool. The wrapper had a tag from P.O., New York, July 6, 1886, indicating it was mail from the steamer Oregon, sunk off Fire Island on March 11th after leaving Queenstown on March 7th, and recovered from the wreck July 1-4.