November 10, 1888, The Saturday Evening Press
I'm confident most readers of this passage already knew the real story about the naming of the two communities. But in today's world, even the tallest of tales resonate in the American psyche. One can just lie about things often enough and they begin to resemble truth. So why should things be any different in 1888? The more clever in-the-know people saw the humor in this but one just knows that some readers took this as the God-given gospel truth. An interesting take on things, to be sure.
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