Small pox and the power of love, 1868


From The Sacramento Daily Union, January 11, 1868:

“POWER OF LOVE.- A young woman in San Francisco thought to test the sincerity of her many admirers by giving out that she had the small pox, and hanging a yellow flag from her house. She succeeded admirably, not one of her devotees coming near her.”

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