Word: golconda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catfish in Season. Perhaps the greatest change-and the hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down...
News as glittering as Golconda came out of the Department of the Interior last week. The Department described what it rapturously called "the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever witnessed...
...Golconda, Ill., Mrs. Jake Eichorn's cactus, which usually blooms on Thanksgiving Day, bloomed a week early. Mrs. Eichorn is a registered Democrat...