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John Wesley Awl

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Crime/Disasters	British passenger ship hits the Nova Scotia coast and is lost along with twenty-seven lives	11/21/1859
Business/Industry	Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit	11/21/1859
Campaigns/Elections	New governor of Mississippi is inaugurated in Jackson and calls for a convention of southern states	11/21/1859
Legal/Political	United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments	11/21/1859

Newspaper	Hartford (CT) Courant, "Untitled," November 21, 1859	11/21/1859
Letter	Mrs. M. Brooks to William Still, November 21, 1859	11/21/1859