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A short paragraph in last wockV Ncwb iii relation to buaj bodies lot* prevented us from obtaining the parti-rulara of n uuiubor of startincidents whirl! might have gone in thin week's pa per. Our IrieiuU who usually give us full information m to whui \n going on i'» the outside world have suddenly with ct their lips and we ore unable hi publish even a meagre ac-umm of an nneinpled murder, h f iro hank robbery, a criminal assault on a well known dude., three street lights, aimir of twins and n big game of crap© )ur go*tipy friends who furnish legitimate new'* items timat not take offense ; we were not alter them. Busy-bodies ate persona who surmise there ought to lie a scandal in u certain quarter ami from n molehill of truth build up a [mountain of uncertainty, but the “old timer” who siu around on an old dry goods box under the shade of a store awning, chewing other people’s tobacco aud hutching up BCiiHUtionul items for a country newspaper, is not a busybody; lie is the fungus growth that naturally belongs to all country towns or cities of thesecond class, and the town that doesnot possess one or more of Ids kind is lost forever. We expert to present our readers all local items of interest making the New* one of I lie host local papers in tl»o state and if it docs not equal the New York Tribune or the Kansas C ity Sunday Sun, it will at least be superior to an ordinary life insurance policy or Harper’s Bazaar. Let us have the items, IVleuds, ami we'll “pivnt Vm.”
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Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas, US
Sat, Jul 04, 1891
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