Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mrs. Cunningham” in article 25 of The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource]:
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There has never been so great an imposition attempted in this city; and the only mistake of Dr. Perkins was in calling in the New York faculty, and not applying directly to Barnum.
Mrs. Cunningham 's "bogus baby performance was thought to have immortalized New York city, but the Oneida charcoal skin, got up in the rural districts, beats us Metropolitans out-and-out.
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