1892 Proof IHC Giveaway Raw

Reported in the
The Washington Bee
Newspaper On August 13, 1892

Washington DC

Lady Godiva's Ride

The citizens of Coventry, England, have just had another celebration of Lady Godiva's famous ride.
A female swimmer personated Lady Godiva. She was not exactly nude, but wore flesh-colored tights.
There were great crowds to see her ride though the streets.
Special trains were run, and everything was fine except the weather, which was so cold and rainy that "Lady Godiva" caught cold.

Keep those entries coming!

Here's my entry.

I think I might have disqualified myself ~ unless duplicated means the same subject or event was posted more than once? That's how I took it.
I have posted three posts about different things. Did I mess up?

@ Lawest your response for the Columbia half dollar has been already been used. Yours is a duplicate answer.

Great idea for a contest! I tried to look for the most obscure item I could find--what could be more obscure than a new record for staying awake? This was published in the Arizona Republican on May 8, 1891.

Ok, we need something from outside of the U. S. A

I finally found out where black flies and mosquitoes came from...

From the Montreal Star, October 12, 1892


"Regina, Assa, October 12-J. B. Tyrrell of the Canadian Geological Survey, who has just returned from the exploration of the Athabaska country, was interviewed last night. Mr. Tyrrell penetrated as far as four hundred miles north of Prince Albert, which is over two hundred miles north of Regina. He was three months in the country lying north of the Churchill River and south of Lake Athabaska and the Black River. He found the country composed largely of granite with volcanic rocks, which will doubtless prove rich in minerals. Iron appeared to be plentiful. For two hundred miles north of Prince Albert the land is good, beyond that rock and sand. This Barren region is the wintering ground of herds of cariboo, which come down in October from the treeless and barren country north. They live on reindeer moss, which grows thickly on the Rocks. Moose and bear are also plentiful. Professor Tyrrell's party consisted of nine men and they lived principally on venison. This country has never been explored before and many inaccuracies were found on maps, in all of which the district was marked "unexplored". Such large natural features as Lake Athabaska and Wolleston Lake were found to be laid down erroneously, being from thirty to forty miles out of true position. Lake Athabaska is clear fresh water and is about as large as Lake Ontario, Lake Wolleston being about half as large. Trout and white fish abound in all the lakes and streams there, there are few birds, chiefly ducks and partridges, the country is totally uninhabited, but it is the hunting ground of the Chippewa Indians. Lake Athabaska freezes over in December and both lakes remain frozen all winter...

After ten days' travelling up the Cariboo River, the party came to the edge of the most beautiful lake they had ever seen, called Cree lake. Professor Tyrrell describes this as clear as crystal, without a tinge of blue, and one can see to bottom at great depths. Cree River plows northward out of this lake and for fifty miles it is a continuous surging cataract, large and dangerous boulders rendering navigation indescribably perilous, but it was successfully descended by the Tyrrell's party. The explorers, while surveying the Black River, were constantly tortured by millions of flies and mosquitoes. In fact, a Chippewan legend marks this locality as the place where the Wassekuchak, their God and Creator, first made these insects. About August 18th the party reached Hatchet Lake, so called because its fish are so large that when caught they cannot be killed with a knife, but have to be despatched with hatchets or axes. On the homeward journey, Whitefish Lake and many streams were surveyed. Although this is the third largest lake met during the whole trip, it has never appeared on maps. Mr. Tyrrell has obtained enough information about the hitherto unknown and wonderful region to enable him to get out a new and accurate map. He has brought back a large collection of geological specimens. Mr. Tyrrell left his morning for Ottawa. "

(Note: The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller Alberta is named after Joseph Burr Tyrrell, who discovered the Dinosaur fossils there.)