Fringe quotes spark quarrels in noisy town talk
The Transcript quotes locals debating names and manners with witty jabs. Alice Oates threats to strike editors, Concord mocked as a sage hill, Saratoga Springs humorously renamed to Kearney Springs, and Chicago’s odd classification of frogs legs as water fowl is poked at.
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