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Fort Dodge jail escape and local incidents in Advocate
An escape tale from Fort Dodge recounts R Lang with a wooden leg stealing a jail watch and breaking out through a barred window, while other inmates slept nearby. Other items include a boy struck by a farm colt, a farmer injured at a threshing site, tax evasion chatter by the Palo Alto ferrets, a Webster county wedding announcement, a Dows hand loss from threshing, and notes from local papers.
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R. Lang
Fort Dodge
Bat Cave
Ed White
Yell Township
Webster County