A Brief Note From 1894 About A Mackerel

From the June 24, 1894 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

Riverhead, L.I.–In the ocean off Fort Pond, recently, on the fishing steamer, Montauk, Captain Burns of Greenport, caught over two thousand large Boston Mackerel. Jacob Josie, one of the crew, while dressing one of the fish, found in its entrails a cent of the 1889 date.”

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