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The San Francisco Daily Morning Call, August 23, 1864

NO EARTHQUAKE

In consequence of the warm, close atmosphere which smothered the city at two o'clock yesterday after noon, everybody expected to be shaken out of their boots by an earthquake before night, but up to the hour of our going to press the supernatural bootjack had not arrived yet. That is just what makes it so unhealthy - the earthquakes are getting so irregular. When a community get used to a thing, they suffer when they have to go without it. However, the trouble cannot be remedied; we know of nothing that will answer as a substitute for one of those convulsions - to an unmarried man.

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