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Mirth and Mystery Across Towns From Frying Frights to Baby Births
A patchwork of odd local tales and dramatic life events from Lewistown to Temple. A man dies after cooling his overheated body with strong air, a captive wife and child are freed in New York, a fisher uses a mirror bait trick in Crookstown, and a series of curious vignettes from Cleveland to Dallas include a street inspector named I Wonder and a young mother Esther Grant with a seven pound daughter.
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Temple, Tex
Esther Grant