Comments on Puzzle #4945: Transcontinental
By Teresa K (fasstar)
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#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 7, 2009 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 7, 2009
Thanks, Adam.#6: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Feb 8, 2009
Thanks, Teresa, for another fantastic puzzle! At first I thought it was actors on stage in an ornate Victorian-era theater. Lewis & Clark had a much more vast and grand stage, don't you think? Great job, as usual!!!#7: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 8, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#8: Steve Johnson (swjohnson12) on Feb 8, 2009 [HINT]
They certainly didn't need to buy anymore of "Dr. Rush's patented "Rush's Thunderclapper" pills" as they started off with 50 dozen.#9: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 8, 2009
Good depiction of the stamp and very interesting. Nice work!
Oh my gosh - whatever are Thunderclap Pills? And why would they need so many?#10: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Feb 8, 2009
I know what "pills" are needed to treat "the clap," having to prescribe them routinely, but I, too, don't know what "Thunderclapper pills" are. LOL!#11: Steve Johnson (swjohnson12) on Feb 9, 2009
I believe that they were used for almost any ailment as many were back then. It had quite a bit of mercury in it so I would imagine that it harmed more than it helped. Since mercury doesn't degrade, they ( ?? ) were able to pinpoint at least one of L & C camps by buried burnt embers and mercury in the ground. One for giong in and the other ...#12: Mary Thomas (marleethom) on Feb 14, 2009
No wonder I didn't recognize the picture :) Great job, Teresa.#13: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 14, 2009
Thanks, Mary.#14: Diana W (aeris) on Apr 23, 2010 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#15: Teresa K (fasstar) on Apr 23, 2010
Thanks, Diana.#16: Linda Martin (ilovethispuzzle123) on Jan 11, 2011
fun to solve!#17: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 9, 2019
Sadly, the link is broken. This one works, for the moment: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/native-history-jefferson-asks-congress-to-fund-lewis-and-clark-expedition-kKp2d6MexEe50dA06aTSLw/#18: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 9, 2019
It's a lovely stamp!
Thank you, Kristen. (✬‿✬)
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