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Smokin' Fish LbNA #8311

Owner:Acorn
Plant date:May 21, 2004
Location:
City:Harvard
County:McHenry
State:Illinois
Boxes:1
Found by: TeachJR
Last found:Sep 6, 2019
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 21, 2004
This is a local history letterbox which honors the elderly but feisty Mrs. Fish who in 1895 “was in the habit of smoking a pipe and did so on the train. . . . When the conductor insisted that she go into the smoking car with the men she threw away her pipe and never smoked again.”

You’ll find this box in the Harvard Diggins Library; hours and information available at www.harvard-diggins.org. Solve the first two sets of clues to decipher the call number of the book and its page. Use that page to find the answers to the final set of clues to the letterbox.

Clues:
Call Number
A. First digit of the library’s address.
B. The dwarves’ lucky number.
C. Again.
D. The tip of my pencil.
E. Invert the numerals of the number of drawers in the Towne Butterfly Collection for the next two digits.
F. Nearby, look for the Miller’s Swallowtail. What’s the last numeral?
G. First letter on Lehmann’s rock.
H. Second letter of the genus of the butterfly sipping from a thistle.
I. Penultimate letter on the water tower.

Page Number
AA. Number of orbs atop the flagpole.
BB. Number of humps in the bike rack.
CC. Number of right triangles making up the veterans’ memorial.

This next set of clues will give you the call number of the letterbox.
I. Decade of her life in which Mrs. Fish travelled to California.
II. Second digit of the year in which Mrs. Fish was born.
III. Second digit under Big Foot Prairie.
IV. Same as D.
V. Decade of the 19th Century in which the federal government ordered the Pottawatomi tribe to move north out of the vicinity.
VI. Find the 4 x 18 brick. First letter of the surname (you won't find this in a book). VII. Second letter of the chief’s first name.
VIII. First letter of the chief’s sports equipment.
IX. First letter of the title of the book you hold.