The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that ...

Fabulous tales of fortunes in 1924, freshwater pearls taken from Mississippi River mussels are still told along the shores of Lake Pepin and in the declining pearl button cities like Muscatine, Iowa.

Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

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