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Posted 03/15/2018   4:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stampfan9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Interesting if true about Pope Pius IX sending marble for the construction of the Washington Monument and that the Know Nothings stole the marble. That is all I can decipher with any certainty.



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Posted 03/15/2018   4:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
cornerstone laid 7/4/1848

some? travel he used
to lay capital 1793
granite soft-
N. of original spot
Pope Puis IX sent
marble block 2
Rome - "know Nothing"
stole it


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Posted 03/15/2018   4:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampfan9 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Don, thank you kindly.
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Posted 03/15/2018   4:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
cornerstone laid 7/4/1848

same trowel re-used
to lay Capitol 1793
ground soft-marsh
N. of original spot
Pope Pius IX sent
marble block 2
Rome - "Know Nothings"
stole it
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"same trowel he used"

"ground soft - moved"
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Posted 03/15/2018   4:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mdroth to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Is this a normal post-it note or a special printing post-it note??
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Posted 03/15/2018   4:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampfan9 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks all for the replies, the note now makes good sense to me.
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