Word: indianola
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...Louisiana, people who live along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople...