1. “To the Public, Moral Science and Mesmerism,” Lynn Transcript, 3 February 1872.
  2. $5,200 would be equivalent to about $114,000 in 2021; $234 would be equivalent to about $5,100.
  3. This would be equivalent to about $9,200 in 2021. See “Average Weekly Wages: 1860–1897” in Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1898), 4.
  4. Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the bureau of Statistics of Labor, 23.