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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 22, 1879

They have on exhibition in St. Louis a cloak made of feathers of quail, prairie chickens, and wild ducks. There are said to be 38,880 feathers, and each feather has from five to eight stitches. It took a lady nearly seven months to make it, and she valued it at $500.

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