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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1903
Page
33
The excerpt centers on Mr E Z Mark Stoops and a cheeky exchange about policing and danger. It portrays a policeman chased by a youth who calls him a sparrow cop and jokes about hunger during shopping and bargain lunch counters.
A line in a sensational dialogue hints that Willie will take a child to a house to let a bulldog fight another dog. The fragment references anger and a plan to expose the child to animal fighting.
A brief exchange notes a child going to school and the obligation of taxes, with the speaker joking that paying taxes should yield some benefit for the effort. The tone is practical and wry about public funding and schooling.
In a quip about swimming Jack states the only way to learn is to swim. A reader replies jokingly that trying it was a good way to learn to sin a.
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