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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
2
A Portland Telegram quips about naming children to avoid social targets. A curious English case describes a sheep thief hanged at Peebles with the dog punished for aiding, as the dog signaled flocks and helped steal and rehide sheep before sale.
A London anecdote traces the term chiaus to a 1809 Turkish interpreter who swindled merchants, giving rise to the slang chouse for a thief. Ben Jonson’s Alchymist is cited as using the older form in dialogue.
Fragmented text discusses hypothetical ocean salinity and freezing behavior with garbled phrases. It mentions St Nicholas and hints at a reflection on how seas would respond if conditions differed, lacking clear coherent facts or dates.
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