Much has been saidjlately about" the fatality!of letter B, bub in the Southwest M seems to be bearing a prejudice. The Vicksburg ' Herald ' reports that while the steamer Mary Peel was wrapped in flames, Captain Hicks, who stood looking on with an air of mingled sorrow and. admiration, exclaimed, " Never, never will I give another steamboat a name commencing with an M. lam not superstitious," he added, " but a strange fatality seems to follow boata whose namea bagin. with an M. I'll never do so again."
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 173, 21 July 1876, Page 7
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86Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 173, 21 July 1876, Page 7
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