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In spite Of which The Rose of Dixie kept coming out every month. Although in every issue it ran photos Of either the Taj Mahal or the Luxembourg Gardens, or Carmencita or La Follette, a certain number of people bought it and subscribed for it. As a boom for it, editor-colonel Telfair ran three different views of An drew Jackson's old home, The Hermitage, a full - page engraving Of the second battle of Manassas, entitled Lee to the Rear And a five-thousand - word biography Of Belle Boyd in the same number. The subscription list that month advanced 118. Also there were poems in the same issue by Leonina Vashti Haricot (pen-name), re lated to the Haricots of Charleston, South Carolina, and Bill Thompson, nephew of one Of the stockholders. 'and an article from a special society correspondent describing a tea-party given by the swell Boston and English set, where a lot of tea was spilled overboard by some of the guests masquerading as Indians.
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